Word: compaq
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...summer. A source close to the project told TIME how, under guarantees of anonymity lest Gates learn of their betrayal, Microsoft's rivals (and some of its partners) led Justice to specific documents and officials at one firm after another. "We knew whom to direct Justice to at IBM, Compaq and Gateway, because we'd all shared beers at computer conferences together," says an informant. "After a long day, we'd sit around and complain about Microsoft...
...violates the venerable Sherman Act, the bedrock of U.S. antitrust law. Sherman, in essence, says it's O.K. to 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...
...problems inherent in the wording of the consent decree became painfully apparent when Klein finally went after Gates last fall. For Klein, the intent of Microsoft's harsh licensing deals--its strong-arming of Compaq, for instance--was clearly to drive up the market share of Microsoft's Explorer at the expense of front runner Navigator's. Thus, he felt, those deals constituted tying. No, they don't, Gates shot back; Explorer is as much an integrated part of the operating system as type fonts or file-system managers. Months later, the battle is still being waged in appeals court...
...ROMs bearing the all-important "gold code" for Win 98 were due to be delivered to the likes of Dell, Compaq and Hewlett-Packard this Friday. Microsoft spokesman Mark Murray said the fact it had been delayed "will not have any impact on the commercial launch date" for the top operating system upgrade, still set for June 25. What Reno et al would like before then is an agreement to let manufacturers remove the Internet Explorer icon, among others, from the Win 98 desktop. She shouldn't hold her breath. Given Microsoft's penchant for brinksmanship, that could take some...
...there?s hope for the Empire yet. Texas attorney general Dan Morales announced late Tuesday that his state would not participate in the upcoming anti-Microsoft free-for-all -- at least not for another few weeks. Morales cited concerned letters from Texas-based computer manufacturers Compaq and Dell -- a sign that Redmond?s write-in campaign may just have opened up a crack in the antitrust facade. Whether that crack will be large enough to ship Windows 98 through is another question...