21 May 2005

Microsoft, Five Years After the Anti-Trust Trial Joseph Nocera, who covered the trial for Fortune, muses on the state of Microsoft, 5 years on.  He concludes that although the central anti-competitive issue was not resolved, Microsoft has been overcome by bureaucratic sluggishness, and is not as feared as it was.  Like IBM perhaps, which was never the same company after its own tangling with the US Government and ant-trust.  The seeds of its troubles in the 1990's were planted in the ant-trust days of the 1970's. 11:41:21 AM    comment []