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Before I get lynched by an angry mob of Sony loyalists, consider one thing: the competition. No games-console maker has ever dominated the market for two successive generations of technology (anyone remember Atari?), and Sony faces three heavyweight challengers--Microsoft, Nintendo and Sega--for the next-generation crown...
...catalog of games keeps going from strength to strength. Joining must-haves like Soul Calibur and Crazy Taxi at the show was the epic role-playing Shenmue, whose lovingly rendered hyper-realistic environment surpasses anything yet available for PlayStation 2. Throw in positive feedback for the Microsoft X-box and early buzz about the Nintendo Dolphin, and there is good reason for Sony to watch its back...
Surely tomorrow's giants will come from the sectors that are revolutionizing business, no? They well may. But remember the stupendous scale we're talking about: combining IBM, Microsoft, Intel and Cisco, for example, wouldn't even come close to hitting our $200 billion mark. That fact points up a hard truth about corporate size. Infotech--or telecommunications or entertainment--may well be the world's largest industry in coming decades, but that doesn't mean it will harbor the world's largest company...
...plan reflects a profound hostility to Microsoft's efforts to make products that work well with one another. For example, the plan would effectively prohibit the new Windows and applications companies from engaging in technical discussions to develop new versions of Windows and Office. Such close cooperation would be impossible under the DOJ plan because it mandates that no technical information can be discussed that is not "simultaneously published" to the entire computer industry, which would be a practical impossibility...
...effect of this lawsuit will be to punish Microsoft no matter what harm this does to consumers, software developers, the industry that has driven America's remarkable growth--or, indeed, the entire economy. That is why Microsoft plans to appeal the district-court decision, which is at odds with a decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals and with antitrust law. We remain confident that the courts will reaffirm that every company, no matter how successful, should be encouraged to build better products for consumers...