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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John F. Dowd who wrote (33619)	11/11/1999 3:06:00 AM
From: Duane L. Olson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

John, well, of course the perception of illegality in restraint of trade is what the whole affair was about, seems to be. But you are right -- it appears that the offending actions have largely been cleaned up. And the way the industry is changing, much of what was seen as anti-competitive a couple of years ago is largely going to be moot in a couple of months. I suspect that the State AJ's, however, will strongly urge that MSFT not be permitted to retain IE tied into Windows in the current manner--- I could have misunderstood their comments, but it seemed they were particularly unhappy about the manner in which MSFT squeezed Navigator out of the venues of possible competition....that is, rather than win by competing fairly, the AJ's believe that MSFT went to great pains to prevent such competition from occurring. The Judge's findings seem to mirror that concern. So I would expect any settlement to take that into account before the AJ's are satisfied. That was a particular focus of the DoJ also, imo... tso