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MS: No breakup - restrictions maybe
News Microsoft told lawmakers that any breakup of the software concern would amount to a "regulatory death sentence", but signalled that it would accept some "common-sense" restrictions on its conduct to settle the government's antitrust claims.
[February 16, 2000, 12:59]
US consumers and IT workers oppose MS breakup
News In a nationwide survey -- 907 consumers and 408 IT professionals took part in the survey.percent said they believed Microsoft had not harmed consumers.percent of IT executives oppose a breakup. If consumers say they have not been harmed by...
[January 13, 2000, 16:26]
Think tank urges Microsoft breakup
News Microsoft, for its part, held to its party line that considering any remedies, including breakup, at this juncture in the trial is inappropriate. The Progress and Freedom Foundation, a conservative Washington think tank, is suggesting a new way to...
[January 28, 2000, 8:50]
MPs call for BT breakup
News MPs called for the break-up of BT Friday, following its announcement of special Internet tariffs this week. The announcement -- offering ISPs a set fee of £10 for around 18 hours of Internet time per user -- has outraged ISPs and users, who have...
[November 12, 1999, 14:53]
US demands Microsoft breakup
News Hoping to convince Federal Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson that Microsoft is trying to protect its monopoly rather than please customers, US Department of Justice attorneys summed up their case during closing arguments in the Microsoft antitrust...
[September 22, 1999, 9:22]
Sun's McNealy: No Microsoft breakup
News In an interview with the BBC at Telecom 99, Scott McNealy CEO of Sun Microsystems has claimed he does not want to see Microsoft broken up. As the high profile Department of Justice v Microsoft anti-trust trial draws to a close, there has been...
[October 14, 1999, 16:07]
MS: Breakup be damned -- here comes NGWS
News On June 1 in Redmond, Washington, the company is slated to unveil its Next Generation Windows Services (NGWS) architecture. NGWS is expected to be the framework via which Microsoft integrates more technologies into its core Windows operating system...
[May 12, 2000, 10:48]
KPNQwest set for breakup as AT&T pulls out
News KPNQwest moved one step closer to being broken up on Thursday, after US service provider AT&T backed out of a bid to buy the complete network. Contracts are being sent out for individual parts of the network such as Ebone, a recently purchased and...
[June 28, 2002, 8:48]
The Day Ahead: AT&T's spin doesn't ring true
News Commentary: Amid all the whining about AT&T's slow motion breakup plan and complaints about how Ma Bell's $100bn cable binge hasn't paid off, there's one item that should irk you more than anything -- AT&T thinks its shareholders are stupid.
[October 26, 2000, 12:49]
Microsoft likely to avoid split
News During a second day of hearings into Microsoft's appeal of a breakup order issued last year, Microsoft attorney Richard Urowsky argued that US District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson showed a bias against the company in comments made to reporters...
[February 28, 2001, 7:28]
Gates' guarantee: We'll win it
News A bitter and battling Bill Gates slammed Wednesday's court-ordered breakup as "unwarranted" and "unprecedented" and predicted Microsoft would ultimately win the case on appeal. But during a wide-ranging question-and-answer session, Gates complained...
[June 8, 2000, 10:40]
Microsoft wins antitrust appeal
News Handing Microsoft a major victory in its antitrust case, a federal appeals court has vacated a lower court's ruling calling for the breakup of the software titan. Some judges also lambasted Jackson's handling of the case, particularly statements...
[June 28, 2001, 17:19]
MS faces tougher battle in Europe
News While the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit vacated a federal judge's breakup order, the core of the case against Microsoft remains intact. Last week's appeals court ruling lifted from Microsoft the immediate threat of a...
[July 4, 2001, 10:36]
MS Windows vs. MS Office?
News While some market watchers said the DoJ's proposal was half-baked, at least from a technology perspective, others said the agency knew exactly what it was doing when proposing the breakup remedy. Corel and Sun/StarOffice would face new, significant...
[May 2, 2000, 8:21]
BT is holding back Broadband Britain
News A working paper from the political thinktank urges government to seize the initiative and ensure that the breakup of BT leaves the UK with a network to which everyone has fair and equal access. But Tom Steinberg, author of today's report, said he...
[February 19, 2001, 14:40]
Are 'Baby Bills' in your future?
News Department of Justice and some of the 19 state attorneys general suing the company for antitrust violations are leaning toward advocating for a breakup of Microsoft. While structural remedies like a breakup had been almost considered out of the...
[April 25, 2000, 9:00]
Hurdles lie ahead for Microsoft
News Breakup also remains a viable option when the case returns to the trial court, where a new judge will craft a remedy. Many legal experts had predicted the appeals court would throw out the breakup order, sending the remedy back to the District...
[July 2, 2001, 8:50]
Reports: Split Microsoft into two - US Government
News According to the WSJ, they will ask for what it terms, 'The most significant breakup of a major corporation since 1984 when the Bell System monopoly was broken into eight companies. The report goes on to suggest that if the breakup proposal was...
[April 28, 2000, 10:25]
Gates reaction: What everyone is saying
News One interpretation of today's announcement is that Bill Gates is further disengaging from the business, making it easier to consider a breakup of the company. Many people think that the barrier to a Microsoft breakup is more personal than financial.
[January 14, 2000, 8:54]
A Year Ago: Judge rules that Microsoft must be split in two
News Jackson also defended his decision to deny Microsoft extra time to fight the breakup plan, a move that the company claims caught it off guard. In a memorandum accompanying the judgment, Jackson said he "reluctantly" came to the decision that a...
[June 8, 2001, 6:28]
