Nothing if not tenacious; Microsoft and Windows XP.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
Economist (US), The, August, 2001
Another year, another Windows
RULE number one at Microsoft is never give up. It came as no surprise that the software giant appealed to America's Supreme Court on August 7th to overturn the recent appeals-court ruling that the firm had repeatedly abused its monopoly. Nor was the timing of the move unexpected, coming as it did two days before the case was to be handed to a new judge to decide on remedies. What amazed instead was the scope of the appeal. Microsoft essentially asked to have the entire case against it thrown out on the grounds that the original trial judge, Thomas Penfield Jackson, was biased.
It is unlikely that the Supreme Court will take the case. Although the appeals court criticised Judge Jackson for talking to reporters during the...
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