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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly?
MSFT 486.80+2.1%12:29 PM EST

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To: Duane L. Olson who wrote (33585)11/10/1999 9:20:00 AM
From: art slott  Read Replies (2) of 74651
 
Talk of breakup gets serious.
>>"We are now in a position to get a rather dramatic remedy," Eliot Spitzer, the attorney general of New York, which is the lead plaintiff of the 19 states in the case, told the Times.

Connecticut's attorney general, Richard Blumenthal, told the Times: "When we started this case, we had nowhere near as specific and clear an idea how serious and far-reaching the evidence of this abuse of their monopoly would be."

The state attorneys general have seemed to take a tougher line on Microsoft than the Justice Department, the Times said, but now they are unified in the position that the problem is the Windows monopoly.

Officials say four remedies are under discussion, according to the
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