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Dueling briefs, pro- and anti-Microsoft:
http://www.actonline.org/pubs/ProComp%20Response.pdf
http://www.procompetition.org/headlines/WhitePaper5_15.pdf
Photos from appeals court oral arguments:
http://www.mccullagh.org/theme/microsoft-antitrust-appeal.html
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http://www.wired.com/news/antitrust/0,1551,44170,00.html
MS Launches Counter PR Attack
By Declan McCullagh (declan_at_wired.com)
2:00 a.m. May 31, 2001 PDT
WASHINGTON -- When the Clinton administration accused Microsoft of
myriad antitrust wrongdoings in a 1997 lawsuit, the company appeared
to have been taken by surprise.
Top Microsoft executives confessed at the time that they
underestimated competitors' abilities to convince Justice Department
lawyers to start a legal struggle that culminated in a breakup order,
and an appeal that's still under way.
Four years later, Microsoft's enemies are wagging fingers once again,
pointing at the company's ambitious plans for .NET, the launch of
Office XP on Thursday, and the scheduled introduction of Windows XP on
Oct. 25 as additional examples of Microsoft's attempts to maintain its
operating system monopoly.
This time, however, Microsoft and its allies don't view the threats as
idle ones. Since the 1997 antitrust case began, Microsoft has
dramatically expanded its Washington presence, moving its lobbying
office downtown and hiring dozens more lobbyists and lawyers.
On Wednesday, two groups and one attorney who receive money from
Microsoft -- the Association for Competitive Technology, the Computing
Technology Industry Association, and conservative superlawyer C.
Boyden Gray -- organized a conference call to deny allegations of
Microsoft wrongdoing.
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