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...Wall Street Journal covered every aspect of Microsoft's breakup except...
...bedeviled by a specter--the specter of dotcom start-ups and the rise of the nerd class. The fantastic wealth of the new economy and the renegade attitude of its Netizens are deeply upsetting to the old order. The result is a cultural battle illustrated most dramatically by the Microsoft case. Surprisingly, the outcome of this conflict has a lot to say about whether we will still turn pages as we read...
...company has a market capitalization of $125 billion--a bit less than the GDP of Denmark. And with its proposed purchase of one of the largest and most powerful media giants, Time Warner, many are beginning to ask, Should we worry about AOL the way the government worries about Microsoft...
...analogous issue is at stake in the government's case against Microsoft. Microsoft argues that it has furthered innovation by providing a platform upon which many application developers have been able to write code. No doubt it has--generally. But the government attacked cases where Microsoft used its power over the platform to stifle technologies that threatened Microsoft's monopoly. The charge was that Microsoft's strategic behavior undermined innovation that was inconsistent with Microsoft's business...
...Microsoft case was about the platform of the 1990s--Windows. The risk that AOL presents is to the platform of the 21st century--the Internet. In both cases, the question is whether a strategic actor can chill innovation. With the Internet, that answer depends upon the principles built into...