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...Bill Gates put the squeeze on Andy Grove? That's the latest antitrust charge federal investigators are pursuing in the Microsoft case, according to Wednesday's New York Times. Attempting to prove a pattern of abuse of monopoly power, the feds are focusing on a well-known August 1995 confab between Gates and Grove at Intel's campus. The Microsoft CEO was "livid" about certain software developments at the Intel Architecture Lab (IAL), according to an internal memo; the thought of the chipmaker meddling in multimedia and Java programs that would conflict with Microsoft's Windows ambitions...
WASHINGTON: Get ready for the Bill Gates Show. In one of the most bizarre twists of the antitrust action against Microsoft, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson agreed Tuesday to turn Chairman Bill's forthcoming deposition into a spectator sport. Lawyers for several media companies had resurrected an obscure turn-of-the-century law that says such occasions "shall be open to the public as freely as are trials in open court." And try as he might to ignore it, Jackson had to admit that the statute still stands...
...better be pretty strong evidence -- summary judgments are rare in matters as complex as antitrust cases, and Microsoft risks losing face if its attempts fall too far short of plausibility. Steve Houck, an antitrust enforcer for New York State, which is leading the charge, said it is "highly unlikely" that Microsoft's request will be granted. But Microsoft head counsel William Neukom contends that the appeals court decision recognizing Windows 95 as being integrated with Internet Explorer would prove fatal to a successful prosecution of his company...
...appointment of a warrior like Ballmer seems significant in light of Microsoft's ongoing battle with the Justice Department. The software giant, which controls some 85% of the market for computer operating systems, is facing a federal antitrust lawsuit focusing on its business practices. Ballmer will have been president seven weeks when the suit goes to trial in September. Gary Reback, the lawyer whose crusade is to break up Microsoft, contends the appointment reveals the company's arrogance in the face of the investigation. "Steve Ballmer is the most aggressive of the Microsoft management team, and based on his appointment...
...Microsoft's opponents are calling this a return to the obnoxious days," says TIME Daily Washington reporter Declan McCullagh, "and the countersuit certainly doesn't seem to be a winner legally." But by aiming at the states -- claiming that they have no right to enforce federal antitrust law -- Microsoft has added a side issue that will soak up the states' limited resources and slow this case to a crawl. "The states will have to respond, and Microsoft will respond to that," says McCullagh. "It's gonna be a long trial...