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U.S. Government Brief Offers Reasons Why Microsoft Should Be Split.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, January, 2001 by Phillips, Heather Fleming
Jan. 13--SAN JOSE, Calif.--A week before President-elect George Bush takes office, the Clinton Administration took its parting shots at Microsoft Corp. Friday in an appeals court brief outlining one last time why the software giant should be broken into two.
The U.S. government and 17 states filed a joint brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington urging the court to affirm a ruling by U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson that Microsoft had leveraged its monopoly power in the personal computer operating system market to thwart competition in the nascent Internet browser market. Jackson ordered that the company be broken into two separate units.
"The government proved at trial that Microsoft had engaged in a broad pattern of...
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