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Over the past two years, Microsoft has used its enormous financial clout and standard-setting power to dip its hands into many areas on-line: news (MSNBC), consumer Internet access (Web TV), and travel reservations. And partly for this reason, Microsoft has become extremely controversial of late. The Justice Department lawsuit filed last fall over the earlier consent degree is still ongoing, and may be expanded next month. Several states' attorneys general are investigating Microsoft's trade practices, as is the European Union. More recently, Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) held committee hearings in early March questioning whether...
...talking about it more at Harvard? Given the importance of computers and networking to nearly all of us both in school and afterwards in the "real world," shouldn't we be more concerned? There seems to be a remarkable lack of official discussion, especially in The Crimson, about Microsoft's dominance in the computer world...
...actually is no problem. As Bill Gates testified in the Senate, competition in the software business is alive and well and innovation seems to be booming more than ever. Maybe, as David M. Weld wrote last November ("Booing Bill Gates," Nov. 18, 1997), people just like to pick on Microsoft merely because it's so successful, not because it's anti-competitive or evil. He points out that "We may need villains to root against as much as we need heroes to cheer...
...perhaps some of us at Harvard are already too far in bed with Microsoft to be truly objective. After all, who is our wealthiest and possibly most famous non-graduate? Bill Gates is, and who among us doesn't want to emulate his success just a little? (Whenever I told people in the "real world" that I was taking time off from Harvard to work for a software company, half the time they asked if I was going to drop out and become the next Bill Gates.) I hear the Microsoft CFO is a Harvard Business School alum who recently...
Computer Science Professor H. T. Kung is now the William H. Gates Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, and the new computing lab is being funded by a huge grant from Microsoft bigwigs Steve A. Ballmer '77 and Bill Gates. In February, (News, Feb. 20), we learned that Microsoft had awarded two undergraduates a year's tuition and paid internships at Microsoft. Plus let's not forget all those Harvard graduates who went on to work for Microsoft as summer interns or full-time employees, or those current students who aspire to work in Redmond. Microsoft...