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Indeed, both Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and Sun CEO Scott G. McNealy '76 used the conference as a platform to attack Microsoft, which is currently the subject of a Department of Justice antitrust lawsuit...
...added that he felt Microsoft's decision todistribute its web browser, Internet Explorer, forfree was clear evidence of antitrust violations...
...standing outside the U.S. District Courthouse in Washington, gripping a bulging briefcase and waiting for his damn cell phone to ring. The reporters rushing past him on their way to the daily Monica stakeout, he knew, were missing out on a more important story. Zang is an antitrust lawyer for New York attorney general Dennis Vacco, and that briefcase bore a thick stack of documents ready to be filed by 20 states in uneasy tandem with the Justice Department's antitrust suit against the world's most powerful software company: Microsoft...
...chief irony of the past week's convoluted maneuverings is that each side in the biggest antitrust case in two decades knew where its counterpart stood well before the conflict's looming D-day--Microsoft's May 15 deadline for giving its new operating system, Windows 98, to PC manufacturers. DOJ antitrust chief Joel Klein believed that the ways Microsoft uses its Windows monopoly to dominate other markets violate antitrust law, and that the company had to be reined in lest it gain a choke hold on the Internet. Gates felt otherwise, and had long since made it clear that...
...antitrust chief sees it, the computer industry is at a historic turning point. Web browsers are indeed the on-ramp to cyberspace; letting Microsoft weave its browser software into the very fabric of Windows could leave the company with an uncomfortably firm grip on the unfathomable riches of the burgeoning world of online commerce. With a browser monopoly, Microsoft could give preferential treatment to services it owns or has contracts with. Anybody wanting to reach the largest number of Web surfers would have to pass through what analysts are starting to call the Microsoft tunnel...