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

To: Moominoid who wrote (7117)	5/14/1998 10:13:00 AM
From: the Druid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Is this all there is to it? All 20 states just pile on to demand these few things! I am not sure this is not a bogus lawsuit. ================================================= States Microsoft suit aims to free computer makers biz.yahoo.com A coalition of states will file a suit against Microsoft Corp. (MSFT - news) on Thursday that would require the company to relax licensing restrictions on computer makers installing Windows 98 software, a source close to the case said. The suit would seek to block the release of Windows 98 only if Microsoft failed to agree to relax the restrictions, the source said. The source said the nearly 50-page complaint says computer makers should have greater freedom to control the ''first screen'' that consumers see when they start up their new computers. The computer makers also ''should be able to substitute the icons of other companies, Netscape or whatever'' for those provided by Microsoft, the source said. An icon is a symbol on a computer screen used to start individual programs.