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...Microsoft's proposal would prevent only some of the misconduct in which the company has been shown to have engaged. Most of the proposal deals with Microsoft's Internet Explorer software, which was at the center of the antitrust case. However, Microsoft has been found guilty of using its monopoly power in a wide range of areas, browsing being only the most prominent. Only three elements of Microsoft's proposal would restrict the company's actions in general ways: Microsoft would offer other software vendors timely access to technical information, would not withhold already-written software for other operating systems...
However, these restrictions would not, for instance, require Microsoft to publish the prices at which it licenses Windows, preventing it from coercing computer vendors with higher prices; they would not stop it from requiring vendors to include other Microsoft products with Windows; and most importantly, they would not separate the financial interests of the applications and operating systems divisions of the company. Given the danger that Microsoft could evade, through legal wordplay or technological change, the content of conduct remedies, the latter seems necessary to prevent future abuse. The government's plan, which incorporates these elements, is a more sound...
...down its e-mail servers, as did businesses throughout the Continent. As much as 70% of the computers in Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden were laid low. The companies affected made up a Who's Who of industry and finance, including Ford, Siemens, Silicon Graphics and Fidelity Investments. Even Microsoft, whose software was the Love Bug's special target, got so badly battered that it finally severed outside e-mail links at its Redmond, Wash., headquarters...
...Jersey reported for duty by 6 a.m. to block the virus. Within hours, some 100 desktop machines were already infected, and technicians had to ditch more than 2 million infected e-mail messages. By contrast, colleges and universities, strongholds of Linux and Macintosh computer systems rather than the targeted Microsoft Windows, got off comparatively lightly...
...point that this is the most damaging and the most widespread virus outbreak ever." Symantec's Moritz is more cautious, conceding that it is No. 1 in numbers and rate of spread, but for sheer destructiveness he prefers last year's Explore.Zip, an especially vindictive virus designed to destroy Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint files...