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Industry Brief Suggests Triplets Remedy for Microsoft Breakup.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, May, 2000 by Quinlan, Tom
May 25--Earlier this month, Microsoft Corp. argued that it would need at least seven months to fight a proposal that the software giant be split in two. Now U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson has indicated that the company may end up with just 48 hours to respond to the idea of becoming triplets.
In an unexpected move Wednesday, Jackson seemed disposed toward bypassing remedies suggested by both the Department of Justice and Microsoft in favor of a last-minute suggestion by two industry trade groups that Microsoft should be broken into three distinct companies.
Jackson ruled last month that the Redmond, Wash.-based company violated antitrust laws by using its monopoly position in personal computer operating systems to hurt competitors and...
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