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Sure, the Microsoft trial is the biggest technology story of the year, give or take an iMac, but with the court on Christmas recess until January 4, it seems like high time to ask, what have we really accomplished? A key aspect of the case turns on whether or not it?s possible to separate Internet Explorer from Windows 95. Is it? Experts disagree. Did Microsoft attack Sun Microsystems by developing its own version of Sun?s Java language, or were they just improving it? Ditto. None of the key accusations in the case have gone undisputed. The tone...
Talk about saving the best for last. In 1998's final session of the Microsoft trial , Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson conceded what Microsoft has been saying for weeks: That the merger of AOL and Netscape could represent "a very significant change of the playing field" which "could very well have an immediate effect on the market." Jackson agreed to let Microsoft review the documents submitted by the merging companies to the Justice Department for approval, and also said he might allow Microsoft to request additional documents from AOL and Netscape to assist in its defense. "It is a major victory...
Ever since the AOL-Netscape merger was announced last month, Microsoft has claimed that it would radically alter the balance of the browser wars because Netscape would suddenly have preferential access to AOL's immense subscriber base. But Justice prosecutor David Boies has countered that the merger was a last resort for Netscape -- a direct consequence of the beating it took because of Microsoft's underhanded grab for market share. And regardless of the new world order, the image of one of the world's most brilliant businessmen pretending not to understand the simplest questions about his own company will...
...million Amount Microsoft paid to acquire LinkExchange Inc., an Internet advertising firm, last month...
...DATE] December 1994 [RUMOR] Microsoft will buy Vatican City [EFFECT] Answered prayers, joked church