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...Harvard law professor filed a much-anticipated analysis of the Microsoft antitrust case on Tuesday, suggesting a way the presiding judge could find the company's practices illegal...
...shouldn't count on an outpouring of public sympathy. Consumers who are already on edge after the Microsoft revelations won't be kind if they think fellow computer giant AOL is playing dirty. "This maneuver is really aggressive on the part of AOL," says TIME senior editor Philip Elmer-DeWitt. "These guys hold a larger share of the market than all the other ISPs combined, and they have to behave responsibly." As new Internet users bang their heads against their keyboards in desperation, the last thing they want to worry about is whether their service provider is going to infiltrate...
Their gift indicates that the expanding ranks of tech millionaires are outgrowing their reputation for stinginess. Following the lead of Microsoft's Bill Gates and wife Melinda, who have given away at least $17 billion in recent years, more technology moguls are making serious commitments to philanthropy. As the Barksdales show, many are using an entrepreneurial approach--hands-on, well informed, demanding--to make sure their gifts are used effectively...
...ears of the world's economic policy makers. While Case took the time - again - to sing the praises of his merger with Time Warner (parent company of Time Daily) and the synergies it will allow, Gates touted the virtues of the one-product company. Pressed on rumors of a Microsoft merger with media content firms such as Viacom, Gates said Microsoft will stick to software design. Industry analysts see the announcement as a preemptive strike against Microsoft's possible breakup into three smaller firms as the result of the government's antitrust case. The thought of a merger that would...
...this doesn't diminish Microsoft's grip on the Web. "We're not going to go out and buy magazines or other traditional content things," Gates told the WEF crowd. "Instead, I think there's room for a company whose main goal is to create software and allow that software to be a very empowering tool." By keeping its management energies narrowly focused on software, Microsoft could continue its dominance in the operating system and web software markets. In any case, Microsoft's management style, a delicate balance between top-heavy control of product content and maverick innovation...