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U.S. Sticks to Its Guns on Microsoft Breakup.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, May, 2000 by Wilson, David L.
May 27--WASHINGTON--In what is likely to be their last filing before the judge who will decide whether to break up Microsoft, government lawyers stuck with their original proposal to split the software giant into two parts.
Under the government plan, one company would sell Microsoft's operating system -- the source of Microsoft's power -- and the other would sell everything else, including the Internet Explorer Web browsing software.
This latest filing comes two days after oral arguments on proposed remedies, during which Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson praised a friend-of-the-court brief that suggested breaking up Microsoft into three companies, with the third company selling the Web browser. The government had actually considered submitting such a...
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