Word: antitrusters
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...there is the chance that the Justice Department simply felt that its work was done. Like IBM in the '80s, Microsoft didn?t have to lose its antitrust case to be tamed by the protracted scrutiny - the company has had to be on its best behavior for the past five years while a thousand other tech flowers bloomed. By this summer, Bill Gates was introducing the company?s new operating system, Windows XP, with just the sort of concessions on bundling that the feds have been after...
...Ergen brushed aside antitrust concerns, arguing that the relevant market is not satellite TV but all of pay TV--including satellite and cable. EchoStar currently has 6 million subscribers (who pay between $21.99 and $69.99 a month in programming fees). If the deal were to go through, the new company's 16 million subscribers would be only slightly more than the customer base of No. 1 cable company...
...deep-pocketed backers behind him, Microsoft and Liberty Cable's John Malone, Murdoch could hand over as much as $7 billion in cash. In mergers and acquisitions, cash is king. (Ergen has said he would consider adding some cash.) Most significant, there's considerable skepticism in the industry that antitrust regulators would let Ergen combine the nation's two largest satellite companies...
...capitalism and freedom [BUSINESS, July 9]. Microsoft wins, obviously, because it does not have to break up its company at government gunpoint. But it's sobering that Microsoft ever faced such a threat in the first place. Now it's time to recognize that the very arbitrary foundations of antitrust law are a disgrace and should be repealed. MICHAEL J. HURD Chevy Chase...
...because of the arrogance of Apple. Well, Microsoft is just in a whole other universe of arrogance. Don't even get me started on its .Net and Passport strategies (that's another article altogether). But remember, we're talking about kinder, gentler Microsofties, at least compared with the pre-antitrust trial version. Then they were viciously monopolistic. Now, they're just plain sneaky, and they're trying to fly under your radar. My advice: don't let them...