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...ruling Monday night, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia granted Microsoft Corporation's request to remove Professor of Law L. Lawrence Lessig as special master in the U.S. government's anti-trust suit against the company...
...Bank (www.sfnb.com), insured by the Federal Depositors Insurance Corporation (FDIC), offers services strictly over the Internet. There is never a local branch to visit. To deposit funds, you use ATMs or direct deposit. All bill payments are done over the Internet with a secure browser like Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer...
...Dell and Compaq let it be known that they had no plans to offend the company that rules their industry by accepting an offer made with a gun to its head. Meanwhile, Gates' browser rival, Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale, held his own Thursday press conference, seizing this window of Microsoft vulnerability to announce that not only will he start distributing Netscape's Navigator browser for free, just like Microsoft, but that he will also give away his crown jewels--the browser's source code--inviting every programmer on the Web to join forces to battle Microsoft...
Whether this Hail Mary play will work remains to be seen--as does the question of how long Gates' capitulation will last. The settlement merely delays the underlying case until April 21, when Microsoft's appeal is scheduled to be heard by a three-judge panel, viewed by antitrust sources as libertarian-leaning and thus possibly pro-Microsoft. By then programmers will be working with early versions of Windows98, which integrates Explorer even more fully--thus in theory solidifying Microsoft's hammerlock...
...that is, Klein hasn't stopped them first. The antitrust chief's larger investigation remains active and aggressive; a Justice source confirms that wider anti-Microsoft action under the Sherman Act, if it comes, will probably arrive before the new operating system does. First Jackson will hear from "special master" Lawrence Lessig, the Harvard law professor whose court-ordered study of Microsoft's business practices is due in May. Around the same time, of course, Microsoft's appeal (which includes a request to have Lessig removed from the case) reaches court, and Win98 hits software shelves near...