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...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 is new is how close the feds place Gates to the center of the action. He -- and his army of attorneys -- have...
...didn't Apple do something this bold before? Apple board member William Campbell, CEO of Intuit, says the answer is simple: "They didn't have Steve." Jobs is for once uncharacteristically modest. "A crisis," he says with a shrug, "is a wonderful time to make some changes...
...center of this new world is a conflict between consolidation and disintermediation (a word that sounds like a tropical disease but means the removal of intermediaries, such as banks, from financial transactions). The disintermediation camp--led by software firms like Microsoft and Intuit--believes that the future will belong to companies that master the technology of this new era, firms that give investors subatomic-level control over their finances with sophisticated products that balance risk and reward, cost and value. The opposite camp--led by McColl and others--argues that the future belongs to huge financial institutions that will package...
When it comes to Microsoft, however, Justice generally does. Gates bailed on his proposed acquisition of financial software giant Intuit after Justice objected, but for the most part the agency has spent recent years attempting to slap Microsoft down, only to cut wimpy deals that left the company more deeply ensconced than ever...
What now? Microsoft's bear hug buys Apple a few months' breathing room, and replacing most of the company's reviled board of directors with bold-faced techies like Oracle's Larry Ellison and Intuit's Bill Campbell was a necessary--and possibly helpful--housecleaning. Now Jobs must recruit some dynamic marketing-minded luminary as CEO to get the company moving forward...