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Washington The Microsoft antitrust case is finally drawing to an end, on terms that aren't likely to have a significant impact on corporate users or Microsoft Corp. The U.S. Justice […]

It's two down and 135 to go for Microsoft in class action lawsuits that seek damages for allegedinflated software prices due to its monopoly. Last week, Judge Gene Porter of […]

WASHINGTON During the Microsoft Corp. antitrust trial, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson kept track of current events, sometimes asking questions about the latest headlines. For instance, when America Online Inc. bought […]

You may think I'm crazy, but Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson should let Microsoft go scot-free. After all, he acknowledges in his ruling that he knows of no 'abstract or metaphysical […]

By Patrick Thibodeau The moment of truth is at hand in the Microsoft Corp. antitrust case. In what may be a sign of impatience, antitrust trial judge Thomas Penfield Jackson […]

The appointment of Judge Richard Posner as mediator between Microsoft and the Department of Justice comes as good news. After being stung by Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's harsh opinion, Microsoft […]

By Patrick Thibodeau, Kim S. Nash and David Orenstein WASHINGTON For Microsoft Corp., the penalties in its antitrust case are arriving well before Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's final verdict. Seizing […]

Washington Microsoft Corp. antitrust trial Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson acknowledges that he approaches computers like any other consumer. But last week in court, he asked a question that hit on […]

antitrust verdictcould come in 2000 Trial resumes in May; unless Microsoft/DOJsettle, outcome could take years to hit usersWashington The two sides in the Microsoft Corp. antitrust trial appear to be […]

The pressshouldn't put Gates on trial True or false: Bill Gates is on trial in Washington, courtesy of the U.S. Justice Department. If you answered 'true,' you're wrong. But you […]

One of the good things about courtroom proceedings is that, eventually, most cases wind up focusing on the real issues. Just as the impeachment of the president has finally boiled […]

Bill Gates isn't scoring any points with Microsoft Corp. antitrust trial Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson. The judge last week told defense attorneys that Gates, in videotaped deposition excerpts, 'has not […]

As the justice department juices up the Microsoft antitrust case by collecting memos, E-mail and other documents about Java, observers are split on whether the material helps or hurts the […]

Intel Corp.'s response to charges that it violated antitrust law appears to rely heavily on the view that it has a right to protect intellectual property regardless of whether it […]

A prediction: There will be no winner or loser in the contest between Microsoft and the Department of Justice, only a complex, often acrimonious struggle for a compromise that likely […]

LAST WEEK'S antitrust filing against Intel Corp. is expected to produce little substantive change for PC makers or users, although most bets are on the emergence of a kinder, gentler […]

Senior writer April Jacobs contributed to this story. WITH WINTEL in the legal hot seat, users say they want the government to leave their desktops alone. The so-called 'Wintel' duopoly, […]

Internet: paul_gillin@cw.com Joel Klein, I take it all back. I haven't exactly been the Justice Department's biggest fan since it signed a wimpy consent decree with Bill Gates nearly four […]

Has Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system become so pervasive and crucial to the day-to-day operations of corporations that it has become an 'essential facility'? That issue was hotly debated last […]

Been there, done that. The government 'is threatening [Microsoft] now instead of Microsoft threatening the rest of the industry. The tables really turned at the brink,' said John Chapman, a […]

Senior writer Stewart Deck contributed to this story. JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER would probably sympathize with Bill Gates. Like Microsoft Corp. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Co. controlled about 90% of the market […]

Hayes is Computerworld's staff columnist. His Internet address is frank_hayes @cw.com. WHY DON'T WE just let the market decide? That's been Microsoft's battle cry over the past few months, as […]

DOJ, states hold suits, start talks YOU COULDN'T cut it any closer. Just hours before the U.S. Department of Justice and more than a dozen states planned to file antitrust […]