Word: antitrusters
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...couldn't blame Microsoft's legal team for feeling a little cranky last week. Just as the lawyers prepped for opening arguments in their historic antitrust suit, word came through that their bid to force a pair of Harvard and M.I.T. professors to hand over taped, off-the-record interviews had been tossed out of a Boston court. What these tapes were said to contain had the software giant's people salivating: top executives at Netscape, their chief rival in the browser wars, were caught candidly admitting to strategic--perhaps fatal--business blunders. It would have been "the best evidence...
...Lucky for Jobs that in his business, the spirit of the underdog is alive and well. Microsoft begins an antitrust trial Monday in which it's almost unanimously cast as the heavy, and as if to prove it Bill Gates was hissed by some software customers Wednesday morning in the middle of defending his company's right to play hardball. The Apple cult is as emotional these days as ever, and Jobs -- who with characteristic flourish delivered the happy news to a packed house near Cupertino while the markets were still open -- still has his reputation as a visionary...
...Microsoft spokesperson said the material used to write the book could advance the company's case in the antitrust suit...
...there's more than one high-profile Bill suspected of obstructing justice. Officials at the Department of Justice are trying to determine whether Microsoft destroyed e-mail that might have helped the government's antitrust case, according to USA Today. The paper said that former Microsoft employees have provided evidence that an undetermined number of electronic messages were deleted in May, shortly before the Justice Department filed its most recent antitrust suit. If the DOJ turns that accusation into something substantial, it could transform a regulatory case into a criminal investigation -- and leave Bill Gates feeling as aggrieved as Bill...
...same time, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson has to weigh up the charges against Microsoft's demand that the whole antitrust case be thrown out of court. Is there enough beef here, or is the government just scrambling to fill the gap left by the recent appeals court ruling -- which decided that tying Internet Explorer to Windows was a legal integration? Well, none of the allegations are really surprising -- bullying Real Networks, Intuit and Apple are all par for the course, while there isn't a nerd alive who doesn't know what Microsoft thinks of Sun. What...