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- From: pyke@cbnews.cb.att.com (james.m.pyke)
- Subject: Re: FTC Finds Microsoft Monopolizing Software Industry
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 19:20:12 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.192012.24204@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- References: <1h08p9INNb9t@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1992Dec21.164850.28054@serval.net.wsu.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec21.164850.28054@serval.net.wsu.edu> Leonard Hermens <lhermens@eecs.wsu.edu> writes:
- >In article <lamont.724946093@catfish16> Bradley Lamont,
- >lamont@rtsg.mot.com writes:
- >> >Well ladies and gentlemen, it seems Billy Gates and his Gestapo at
- >> >Microsoft are going the way AT&T did in the early 1980s- a breakup.
- >> >Yesterday the Federal Trade Commission found Microsoft to be
- >monopolizing
- >> >the computer software industry and to be practicing unfair business
- >> >practices. The FTC wants to know how Microsoft garnered 95% of the
- >overall
- >> >operating system and major software markets before it cotinues further
- >> >actions which will entail one of or more than one thing:
- >> >
- >> >1) Breaking up of Microsoft into smaller subdivisions
- >> >2) Enacting "Barriers" around the company as to what its pricing,
- >sales,
- >> > business practices may be.
- >
- >> Source for this tidbit of info?
- >>
- >> (Not that I don't consider you reliable, but might want to cut it out
- >of the
- >> paper :-)
- >
- > Associated Press. I saw it in the Business section of the Spokane,
- >Washington,
- >"Spokesman-Review" -- Saturday's edition.
- >
- >-----
- >Leonard Hermens
- >Washington State University
- >lhermens@eecs.wsu.edu
-
-
- Don't count Microsoft out just because they may get broken up. It turns out
- that some stock people are looking for a new company to be the "stock to look
- to" now that IBM is on such hard times. two of the major contenders are
- Microsoft and AT&T. The breakup has made just made AT&T much sleaker, not
- weaker (Sorry, it just kind of came out that way).
-
- Microsoft could become stronger a couple of years after they are broken up
- (if of course they are broken up).
-
- Jim Pyke
-
-