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Technology Stocks : COMS & the Ghost of USRX w/ other STUFF

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To: jhild who wrote (11620)	1/13/1998 3:44:00 PM
From: Scrapps	of 22053

Japan's FTC Raids Microsoft Unit in Tokyo TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Fair Trade Commission (FTC) today raided Microsoft's Japanese unit over suspected infringement of antitrust laws, a source close to the government body said. A spokesman for the Microsoft unit said FTC officials made an unannounced visit to the company's Tokyo headquarters and inquired about its practice of bundling software applications together with its mainstay Windows operating system. The source said the antitrust watchdog suspected Microsoft of infringing antitrust laws through business practices that restricted Japanese sales of arch-rival Netscape's Internet browser software, Navigator. Navigator is a competitor to Microsoft's own Internet Explorer browser. The Microsoft spokesman said the unit did not consider its business practices to infringe Japan's antitrust laws. The FTC also suspected the unit's business practices might have been restricting sales of other software that competed with Microsoft products such as the Excel spreadsheet and Word wordprocessor applications, the source said. The FTC's raid came ahead of a court hearing in the United States scheduled for later Tuesday that was part of the ongoing legal battle between Microsoft and the U.S. Justice Department. A U.S. district court judge called the hearing to determine whether Microsoft was in contempt of his Dec. 11 order requiring it to offer the Windows 95 operating system to computer makers without including Internet Explorer. U.S. federal regulators have alleged that Microsoft broke its 1995 settlement of antitrust charges by making the Internet Explorer browser a component of Windows 95, which dominates the market for personal computer operating systems.

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