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Besides, the Justice proposals don't yet address what Klein considers the underlying problem: Microsoft's ongoing practice of rolling new technologies into its operating systems, a process that makes each new version of Windows better and more powerful but also, Klein and his adherents argue, tends to discourage innovation outside of Microsoft's Redmond campus. In fact, what is most striking about the DOJ suit is how much of the perceived Microsoft problem the filing doesn't tackle and how many possible remedies Klein didn't request: an outright breakup of the company, say, or a court-ordered "Chinese...
...than they've seen from Justice thus far. "We've been disappointed in the past," a subdued Gary Reback, the Valley's leading anti-Microsoft attorney, said last week. "The government made a start and didn't finish the job. I would hope that doesn't happen again." Although Klein confirmed to TIME last Friday that he has "ongoing investigations into other issues" relating to Microsoft, for the moment he has opted for a surgical strike: bring a tightly focused case today that he might actually win and (perhaps) tackle larger issues somewhere down the road...
...those s.o.b.s get to watch and wait, just like the rest of us. In this era of megamergers, Joel Klein already has plenty of antitrust enforcement on his plate. Last week he announced his intention to fight a proposed partnership between American Airlines and British Airways; the DOJ's case against the proposed merger of Lockheed-Martin and Northrup-Grumman also begins this September; and the chipmaker Intel is said be next in the cross hairs of his colleagues over at the FTC. But the resolute Klein seems determined to make Gates a test case for reinterpreting the 19th century...
...METAPHOR] JOEL KLEIN, Justice Department antitrust chief: "This is like having someone with a monopoly in CD players forcing consumers to take its CDs in order to get the machine...
...last week's issue, TIME interviewed Bill Gates about the impending antitrust case. On Friday, Washington bureau chief Michael Duffy and senior correspondent Bruce van Voorst talked to Joel Klein...