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...Microsoft camp insists consumers will benefit for the opposite reason--because the ruling frees Microsoft, and hence the rest of the technology industry, to innovate and improve products without government meddling. The company has several new initiatives teed up, including Passport, a kind of Web-shopping manager, and Hailstorm, a subscription-based e-mail-alert Web service. One of Microsoft's main offenses in the antitrust case, the company points out, was giving away the Internet Explorer with Windows. "There weren't a lot of complaints from customers that they were getting a browser for free," says Jonathan Zuck, executive...
Aside from what happens in the government's case, last week's decision delivered a separate blow to Microsoft. The ruling that Microsoft is a monopoly could open the floodgates to civil suits by companies, and even consumers, who have been harmed by Microsoft's anticompetitive activities. Proving that a company is a monopoly is an onerous legal task, and private litigants may now be able to bootstrap their cases onto last week's findings...
...company that could be first in line: AOL Time Warner, the parent company of TIME. In recent talks about renewing AOL's spot on Windows XP, Microsoft sought indemnity from future antitrust claims. AOL refused, and the deal died. AOL might sue, claiming that Netscape, the Internet browser it now owns, was harmed by Microsoft's monopolistic behavior. Estimates of potential damage are in the billions of dollars. Other companies that could sue: Microsoft-loathing Sun Microsystems, RealNetworks and Oracle...
...though, Microsoft is basking in the sunlight of what it regards as a clear-cut victory. Microsoft, whose Redmond, Wash., campus is just outside Seattle, may be right in saying Seattleites have a special ability to appreciate the sun breaking through the clouds. But residents of that rainy burg know that sunshine is sometimes just a break between cloudy days...
THOMAS PENFIELD JACKSON Appeals court blasts Microsoft judge for "seriously tainting" case with pre-verdict blabbing...