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...achieve a monopoly, but not to use one to wedge your way into other lines of business. Klein calls actions like the nasty one Microsoft is accused of taking against Compaq--threatening its largest PC partner with the revocation of its Windows license if Compaq chose Netscape's Web browser, Navigator, over Microsoft's competing Explorer--clear violations of the law. Gates and his supporters, by contrast, steadfastly insist (cue the Star-Spangled Banner sound track) that every deal they've ever struck is just another example of the company's ongoing effort to give the American consumer more...
...came down, unsurprisingly, to the browser. Microsoft's statement Saturday confirmed that Gates was willing to modify his licensing agreements with computer manufacturers to let them decide which products and services they could feature on their own machines. But Klein wasn't interested in settling for another minor pact reminiscent of his predecessor Anne Bingaman's infamous 1994 consent decree, now widely derided as a sellout that only postponed the day of reckoning. The deal, struck in 1994 and ratified in '95, granted Microsoft the right to sell "integrated" products--i.e., software like Windows that combines more functions than...
...Microsoft, it's a bitterly phyrric victory. Windows 98 will ship on June 15, and the marketing blitz will be launched ten days later. But a mere three months of sales down the road, Redmond gets hauled before the judge -- potentially, to get its browser ripped out for good. "This is a very fast track," says antitrust law expert William Kovacic. "For a monopoly case, the time to trial is routinely a minimum of two to three years." William Neukom and the rest of Redmond's legal team had better put the coffee...
...other Western news-focused sites are occasionally accessible because of software glitches on the blackout servers. And most Chinese with Net access are savvy enough to find what they want even in the face of a watchful, nervous government. One group of university students in Tibet fired up a browser in front of a reporter recently and pointed it at the most controversial site they could imagine: Bill Clinton's own www.whitehouse.gov The opening screen, "Good evening from the White House," came up with no problem...
...urged a federal appeals court to deny a request by Microsoft that would allow the company to ship Windows 98 on schedule next week. Microsoft asked the appeals court on Wednesday to set aside parts of a restraining order that prevented the company from forcing manufacturers to take its browser as a condition for licensing its operating system. That restraining order was appealed, but until a court says otherwise it still stands, as it has now for five months. So it's hard for Microsoft to suddenly claim an emergency when it could have sought to clarify the matter back...