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...will ever accuse any party in this trial of behaving impulsively. The battle of wills between Microsoft and the government dragged on Thursday as Justice Department officials and state attorneys general dismissed the software giant's latest peace offering as an "inadequate" response to the government's proposed breakup of the company. And while Washington's notably lackluster reaction might have dampened the spirit of almost any other corporate chairman, Bill Gates seems unfazed...
...ranged between 30 and 80 and averaged 51. Now the P/E is 41, by that measure its lowest point and best value in many months. That earnings multiple is well below those placed on lower-margin businesses run by, among others, Dell and Sun. And history (notably the 1984 breakup of AT&T) suggests that breakups work out well for shareholders...
...shareholders in deciding how to de-monopolize Microsoft. "He'll be more interested in restoring the marketplace to where it would have been" absent Microsoft's abusive behavior, says Jennifer Gray, an antitrust lawyer with Brown Raysman. In that view, any wealth that happens to be destroyed by a breakup or other remedy could be seen as just deserts for shareholders who should never have benefited from monopoly profits in the first place...
BILL GATES Everyone want to slice 'n' dice you. Hey, Rockefeller made his biggest $$$ after breakup...
...even after a breakup, what's to stop Microsoft from bundling all of these functions into Windows operating systems...