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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is preparing to file a significant anti-trust lawsuit against Intel Corporation, alleging that the company has abused its dominant market position in the production of microprocessor chips. The FTC claims that Intel has withheld technical information about its chips from computer manufacturers with whom it
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The Federal Trade Commission is gearing up to take on tech giant Intel in a high-stakes antitrust lawsuit, targeting the company's alleged practices of withholding technical information from computer manufacturers. The suit, expected to be filed in just over two weeks, aims to break the dominance of Intel&
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The federal government and 20 state attorneys general have launched a broad antitrust suit against Microsoft, accusing the software giant of using its monopoly in personal computer operating systems to control the Internet and software products. The suit alleges that Microsoft uses its dominance to restrict consumer choice, engage in
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The Justice Department, led by Assistant Attorney General Joel Klein, has announced a broad antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft, alleging that the software giant engaged in anti-competitive practices to maintain its Windows monopoly. According to Klein, Microsoft attempted to negotiate an agreement with Netscape to share the internet browser market, but
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Sun Microsystems Inc. has filed two new motions in its suit against Microsoft Corporation in U.S. District Court, requesting a preliminary injunction to require Microsoft to include a compatible Java implementation in Windows98 and its software tools for the Java programming environment. The company claims that Microsoft is attempting
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Tele-Communications, Inc. (TCI) has continued its strategy of using Microsoft Corp. and Sun Microsystems, Inc. in its advanced digital set-top boxes, signing a "definitive agreement" with Microsoft for its Windows CE-based operating system and related software. At the same time, TCI expanded its earlier agreement with Sun to
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More than 50 companies, including tech giants Compaq and Dell, have rallied behind Microsoft Corp. in its ongoing legal battle with the federal government over the release of Windows 98. The rally, held in New York, aimed to warn of the potential negative impacts of blocking the timely release of
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Despite the Justice Department's ongoing antitrust investigation into Microsoft Corporation, the company's business with the US government is growing rapidly. The government has initiated programs to use Microsoft software on tens of thousands of desktop computers, including the use of popular office productivity and communications programs
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The US Justice Department is considering a delay in the release of Microsoft's Windows 98 operating system due to antitrust concerns, while Fannie Mae's Flexible 97 mortgage program has been a success in Atlanta and will be expanded nationwide in June. Meanwhile, General Motors' Saturn
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The Microsoft Corporation has pulled out of a $300 million project to build a high-speed computer network for the California State University system, citing a gap between the university's expectations and what Microsoft could supply. The ambitious partnership, known as the California Educational Technology Initiative (CETI), aimed to
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Former Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork, hired by Netscape Communications Corp., has expressed concerns about Microsoft's anticompetitive practices and called for government action against the company. Bork appeared on CBS's Face the Nation, citing documents that display a clear intent to monopolize and restrictive practices to
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The longstanding reputation of Microsoft as a dominant force in the personal computer industry is being tested by recent public scrutiny and ongoing antitrust investigations. A speculative report by SRI International, titled "After Microsoft," presented a fictional scenario in which the software giant has devolved into five separate
