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Because of a new Microsoft policy, some Harvard network users will have to spend about $150 if they wish to continue using software currently obtainable from the Harvard network...
Beginning March 31, Microsoft will end an agreement with Harvard University that allows one piece of licensed software to be run on more than one computer. Users can currently run Microsoft programs including Word and Excel from their personal computers through the Harvard network...
Bill Gates has opened a multifront war against the antitrust actions filed last year by the Federal Government and 19 states. The $1.3 million handed out by Microsoft in 1997 and '98--two-thirds of it to Republicans--was three times its outlays in the previous election cycle...
...some states that have sued the company, including New York, Microsoft has retained operatives with ties to the attorneys general to argue against the litigation. Former Republican Party chairman Haley Barbour is arguing Microsoft's position with Republican Governors. The company's other lobbyists include four former members of Congress--Republicans Rod Chandler and Vin Weber and Democrats Tom Downey and Vic Fazio--and former aides to Senate majority leader Trent Lott and House majority leader Dick Armey...
What can Congress do for Microsoft? A Justice Department official says it could pass legislation that would effectively override any court-imposed solution in the antitrust case. And there are precedents. In 1981, AT&T tried, without success, to avoid a breakup by pushing a bill to restructure the company on more favorable terms. Much later, regional Bell companies, chafing under restrictions of the AT&T decree, were able to get it rendered moot by the 1996 Telecommunications Act. A blunter approach would be to forbid the Justice Department to spend any funds enforcing a court decree. Congress "could make...