Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with the future of the computer industry hanging in the balance, the launches of both Windows 98--and parallel antitrust suits by the Federal Government and some 20 states--were delayed until at least Monday to give the lawyers time to either find their way to common legal ground or determine that no such territory exists. By Saturday afternoon, though, it was clear that--probably by early Monday--Reno's press conference would almost surely be taking place after...
...antitrust chief also had plenty of incentive to cut a deal. With merger mania rampant in industries from banking to telecommunications, Klein had ample opportunity to prove his trust-busting mettle without taking on Microsoft in a long and costly battle that many legal scholars suspect he will have a tough time winning. Faced with the uneasy prospect of trying to prove consumer harm by a company that has helped make PCs better and cheaper, Klein must have held out at least faint hopes that Gates would renounce enough of his most egregious practices to let them both declare victory...
...browser is only the current example--albeit very attention getting--of the momentous legal principle that's at stake here. For beyond Explorer lies the endless stream of new technology products that will define the way we use tomorrow's computers--indeed, the way we live our very lives: voice and handwriting recognition. Banking and personal finance software. Real-time video and Internet television systems. Security and encryption programs. The Justice Department's view is that letting Microsoft integrate one new breakthrough after another into an OS that, at least for the foreseeable future, most of humanity will have little...
...past 12 years. "There's more out there to earn than just free airline tickets," says Petersen, who earns close to a million miles annually from the 50 to 70 business trips he takes each year. "It's almost anything you can think of, as long as it's legal and doable...
...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...