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To: J. P. who wrote (33403)	11/9/1999 11:50:00 AM
From: art slott	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

MS could owe consumers BILLIONS: WSJ

To: J. P. who wrote (33403)	11/9/1999 12:27:00 PM
From: art slott	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

For those of you still living in the real world, this is but one example of what Judge Jackson based his scathing findings on. >>And so, in the view of US District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, Microsoft decided to strike. In last week's findings of fact in the Microsoft antitrust case, Jackson found that ''Microsoft consistently pressured IBM to reduce its support for software products that competed with Microsoft's offerings, and it used its monopoly power in the market for... operating systems to punish IBM for its refusal to cooperate.'' When IBM insisted on distributing SmartSuite, Jackson found, Microsoft withheld its new Windows 95 software from IBM until 15 minutes before the product's official release. Other, more compliant manufacturers had gotten the software weeks earlier, so they could begin building computers around it. The delay cost IBM millions in lost sales. And for years thereafter, Microsoft charged IBM a higher price for its Windows software than the amount paid by other manufacturers.