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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (14141)11/16/1997 10:12:00 AM
From: Harvey Allen  Read Replies (2) of 24154
 
Rivals Unite to Combat Microsoft's Dominance

washingtonpost.com

This sidebar item is a little old but suggests that Klein is no lite weight.

washingtonpost.com

His most controversial decision came a year and a half ago,
when Microsoft introduced its Microsoft Network online
service and placed a graphical "icon" on the desktop of
Windows 95 users that would take users to the service with
one click. Competitors and consumer advocates urged the
antitrust division to go after the software giant.

A heated fight broke about among members of the division,
with many career lawyers urging the department to step in. But
Klein urged a wait-and-see approach, believing that rival online
service America Online, which had more content, would be a
robust competitor despite Microsoft's market power. Having a
monopoly like Microsoft's, he reasoned, wouldn't automatically
allow them to dominate every new market they entered.

Today, booming AOL has more than 9 million members while
the Microsoft Network remains at a slow-growing 2.3 million,
according to industry analysts. And both are dwarfed by the
Internet itself, whose explosive growth surprised even
Microsoft CEO Bill Gates. But in yesterday's contempt filing,
Klein found a way to attack the kind of Microsoft actions he
believes may truly strangle competition. What Klein fears,
sources say, is that Microsoft will unfairly exploit the
dominance of its Windows operating system to kill off rivals in
the next big software market -- the Internet browser.
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