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Microsoft's Tenets: Old Words in New Bottles

Mary Jo Foley writes on Microsoft Watch:

Don't be fooled: There are no real concessions in Microsoft's ballyhooed golden rules of engagement.

For Microsoft historians who've kept tabs on Microsoft's dealings with its PC and software partners during the past decade, the words "Microsoft" and "principle" make strange bedfellows.

It was ten years ago this coming October that the U.S. Department of Justice filed its antitrust lawsuit of Microsoft, based on what the DOJ considered a breach of terms outlined by a 1994 consent decree with Microsoft. After years of damning testimony, via which Microsoft's unscrupulous business practices involving its OEM partners came to light, Microsoft was found guilty of abusing its desktop Windows monopoly. Since then, Microsoft has been slapped with a number of additional antitrust suits, here and abroad.

posted by Fergie @ 7/20/2006 03:13:00 PM