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Anxieties that Microsoft may not be in a penitent frame of mind emerged last month when Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer insisted at a press conference in Brazil that Microsoft had plenty of competition in the software business. Seeming to ignore the findings of a federal district court and a unanimous appeals court in this case, Ballmer told reporters, "I don't know what a monopoly is until somebody tells...
Supporters of the antitrust lawsuit are worried that last week's announcement by Justice may be only the first shoe to drop. The next, they fear, could be a fuller capitulation, with the government settling the suit on terms that will let Microsoft continue to abuse its monopoly position. But Justice insists it's just trying to balance morality and mortality. "We hope," a top official said last week, "to bring the Microsoft case to a resolution in all of our lifetimes...
BILL GATES Gov't won't carve up Microsoft. Company doesn't even gloat. A kinder, gentler monopoly...
...good news for the PC industry, which is hoping to find a way to resuscitate comatose sales. Last week Microsoft shipped its final code for XP to manufacturers, which are installing it on new machines that should be in stores soon. Whether you buy a new machine, upgrade your old one or do nothing at all depends on your own level of Windows discomfort...
When was the last time your PC crashed? Not to gloat, but it hasn't happened to me for weeks. That's because I installed a preview version of Microsoft's new operating system, Windows XP, almost two months ago. And Ol' Sparky rarely seizes up now. Before XP, my computer tended to crash about three times a day, which is probably par for most hard-core users of Windows 95, 98 and ME. Most PCs crash as frequently as bumper cars. If Windows XP did nothing more than increase stability, I'd gladly pony...