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...couldn't blame Microsoft's legal team for feeling a little cranky last week. Just as the lawyers prepped for opening arguments in their historic antitrust suit, word came through that their bid to force a pair of Harvard and M.I.T. professors to hand over taped, off-the-record interviews had been tossed out of a Boston court. What these tapes were said to contain had the software giant's people salivating: top executives at Netscape, their chief rival in the browser wars, were caught candidly admitting to strategic--perhaps fatal--business blunders. It would have been "the best evidence...
...rudest awakening, however, could be the one that begins next Monday, when the antitrust action brought by the Justice Department and 20 states kicks off in Washington. While it will not be the trial of the century--there is already too much competition for that title--U.S. v. Microsoft could be the trial of the 21st century. Redmond's defenders and detractors agree that the case marks a turning point for antitrust law--and for any would-be monopolist of the third millennium. Will the 108-year-old Sherman Act establish a beachhead in cyberspace? Or will antitrust cops...
Step One in the government's case, then, is to prove Microsoft's dominance. This hardly seems a difficult task. Between various versions of Windows and DOS, Microsoft controls 97% of the market for PC operating systems. Still, Redmond bristles at any use of the M word. "Monopoly," says Rule, "is not the same as market share." Why not? Because some breakthrough innovation could turn this fast-moving industry upside-down in a heartbeat, or so the theory goes. But in the tradition-bound setting of a courtroom, such Clintonesque semantics--"It depends on what you mean by monopoly...
...Lucky for Jobs that in his business, the spirit of the underdog is alive and well. Microsoft begins an antitrust trial Monday in which it's almost unanimously cast as the heavy, and as if to prove it Bill Gates was hissed by some software customers Wednesday morning in the middle of defending his company's right to play hardball. The Apple cult is as emotional these days as ever, and Jobs -- who with characteristic flourish delivered the happy news to a packed house near Cupertino while the markets were still open -- still has his reputation as a visionary...
...Highest bid so far at Microsoft's charity campaign to win a tour of the mansion. Visit includes refreshments and quality time with Bill...