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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (18988)	5/13/1998 3:58:00 AM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Antitrust Effort Against Microsoft Gains Speed nytimes.com The good gray Times has been pretty quiet lately, like it's been around here, but they finally weigh in on the week's rumors of impending action. The index page title was "Lawsuits Could Sharply Limit Microsoft", and that's reflected in the lead paragraphs. Only three days before it is scheduled to begin shipping Windows 98, Microsoft Corp. is girding for an escalating round of lawsuits that could block the release of the latest version of its operating system and impose profound limits on the company's freedom to add features to future generations of Windows. The federal government and the attorneys general of at least 12 states plan to file broad new antitrust suits against Microsoft as soon as Thursday. While the Justice Department has not disclosed its precise strategy, the states have come to general agreement on a complaint that "will surprise some people," said a senior official in one attorney general's office. The official added, "It's going to be more far-reaching than most people expect." To which I must dryly reiterate it couldn't happen to a nicer company. Goes back to Urowsky's comment about a Sherman action at the original consent decree hearing, be careful what you wish for. Big article, one more little excerpt for entertainment only. And despite a Microsoft-sponsored rally last week in New York to demonstrate industry opposition to delaying the release of Windows 98, the United States' leading personal-computer manufacturers are not proving to be the zealous allies that Microsoft executives might hope for. In interviews this week, some greeted the possibility of a delay in releasing Windows 98 with a virtual shrug. Microsoft executives have repeatedly warned of severe harm to the nation's economy should Windows 98 be held up. But executives from most of the nation's largest computer companies said this week that they saw no real demand from consumers for an operating system to replace Windows 95. But it sucks less! So they say, anyway. Cheers, Dan.