Word: doj
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gates did most of the talking; Klein had instructed his aides to ?let him have his say.?Gates argued that Microsoft?s contributions to computer technology justified Windows 98?s release, despite the DOJ?s claims that it violated not just a 1995 court agreement but also the basic principles of antitrust policy. Klein held his ground, amazed at Gates? lack of sophistication in realizing to what extent the DOJ?s action might go beyond Windows 98. The two-hour session produced a stalemate. Gates, said insiders, was ?intelligent, forceful and, above all, passionate,? but regulators were deaf...
...hard for Microsoft to suddenly claim an emergency when it could have sought to clarify the matter back in December, as Justice was quick to point out in its brief to the appeals court. Calling the last-minute crisis over the release of Windows 98 "a self-generated hardship," DOJ point man Joel Klein made it clear that the company should have asked a lot sooner if it really was interested in a speedy answer...
...staring it in the face since last December, and that the company has only itself to blame for failing to seek clarification on the issues that may now delay the release of Windows 98. It's hardly surprising to add that the Tuesday night talks between Bill Gates and DOJ point man Joel Klein were fruitless, with Gates maintaining that Windows is not an operating system monopoly...
...Several states' attorneys general are investigating Microsoft's trade practices, as is the European Union. More recently, Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) held committee hearings in early March questioning whether or not Microsoft was hurting competitiveness in the computer industry, and a few months after the Department of Justice (DOJ) lawsuit was announced, newspapers reported a surge in anti-Microsoft feelings. One Microsoft employee complained they were being demonized...
...hear the occasional anti-Microsoft grumble from students. Crimson columnist Kevin S. Davis '98 (Tech Talk, Jan. 5) called for the DOJ to break up Microsoft to end its monopoly. Likewise, on Feb. 17, Davis explained how the once high-flying Netscape was humbled by Microsoft's extremely aggressive competition in the browser market. And somebody invited unabashed Microsoft critic Larry Ellison (CEO of Oracle Corporation) to campus last fall, where he spoke to a packed Science Center auditorium...