Word: suit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Monica stakeout, he knew, were missing out on a more important story. Zang is an antitrust lawyer for New York attorney general Dennis Vacco, and that briefcase bore a thick stack of documents ready to be filed by 20 states in uneasy tandem with the Justice Department's antitrust suit against the world's most powerful software company: Microsoft...
...when the DOJ suit was postponed, the state attorneys general who convened at the Justice building were naturally curious to learn why. Klein explained that Gates had called the night before, offering what appeared to be real concessions, including easing restrictions on what PC makers could put on their opening screens. That hardly squared with Gates' longtime obstinance on such matters, but Klein, whose sensitivity to politics and diplomacy would have made him a standout at the State Department, was willing to go the extra mile just in case. The states, however, were determined to maintain strategic independence...
...ongoing practice of rolling new technologies into its operating systems, a process that makes each new version of Windows better and more powerful but also, Klein and his adherents argue, tends to discourage innovation outside of Microsoft's Redmond campus. In fact, what is most striking about the DOJ suit is how much of the perceived Microsoft problem the filing doesn't tackle and how many possible remedies Klein didn't request: an outright breakup of the company, say, or a court-ordered "Chinese wall" between its operating-system and application development efforts. Sun CEO and No. 1 Gates antagonist...
...seems determined to make Gates a test case for reinterpreting the 19th century Sherman Act to apply to 21st century Silicon Valley. If Microsoft loses in court this fall, Windows NT 5.0, due in spring 1999, would be the logical target of a new and far more sweeping federal suit. Indeed, Bill Gates could find himself fending off Justice in perpetuity, a prospect which in turn raises the fear that the company could come to resemble the IBM that emerged from 13 years of tortuous antitrust wars a wounded giant--drained of the competitive fire that helped spark the computer...
...several awards. He and his wife have three young children and, he says, "worry endlessly about how we're going to pay for their college educations. We've laid that task squarely at the foot of the stock market." His column this week finds investing opportunities in the antitrust suit against Microsoft...