Wednesday, February 19, 2003

Europe Might Not Let Bill Gates Off So Lightly "For Microsoft Corp. (MSFT ), the finish line appeared to be within sight. The five-year-old antitrust battles in Washington came to an end last year with a ruling that barely rapped the software giant on the knuckles. And in the sprawling Eurocracy in Brussels, word had it that Europe's competition commissioner, Mario Monti, was just weeks away from resolving Europe's three-year-old antitrust tussle with Microsoft. But any illusions of a speedy wrap-up ended in late January with a resounding thump. That was the sound of a new complaint against Microsoft landing on Monti's desk." [Business Week] 9:06:27 PM    comment []

Microsoft "Microsoft is acquiring some assets of Connectix, including software that permits Windows to run on a Macintosh and an unreleased server program. Connectix is best known for its 14-year-old Virtual PC software, but has been trying to recast itself as a maker of server virtualization software, which lets a single machine perform like several independent machines running their own operating systems." [ZDNET] Interesting.... 3:31:33 PM    comment []