Friday, November 5, 1999

Microsoft Findings Excerpt The concluding paragraph of Judge Jackson's findings leaves me with the impression that the jig may be up for Microsoft: 412. Most harmful of all is the message that Microsoft's actions have conveyed to every enterprise with the potential to innovate in the computer industry. Through its conduct toward Netscape, IBM, Compaq, Intel, and others, Microsoft has demonstrated that it will use its prodigious market power and immense profits to harm any firm that insists on pursuing initiatives that could intensify competition against one of Microsoft's core products. Microsoft's past success in hurting such companies and stifling innovation deters investment in technologies and businesses that exhibit the potential to threaten Microsoft. The ultimate result is that some innovations that would truly benefit consumers never occur for the sole reason that they do not coincide with Microsoft's self-interest. So what's the solution going to be? Breaking Microsoft into an applications company and an OS company? 4:33:00 PM     Microsoft Findings Looks like the MS findings website is partially slashdotted. I have succeeded in downloading a good chunk of the document however and intend to comment more once I have had a chance to peruse its contents. Okay, so it's a week after I first heard it might happen, but the judge overseeing the Microsoft antitrust case is finally releasing his finding. 4:15:00 PM

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