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Forget the Department of Justice. IS managers at some of the country's largest corporations have their own concerns about Microsoft Corp. They're becoming uncomfortable with their dependence on Microsoft for […]

Use this regression model to pinpoint winning marketing strategies. Whether your company sells laundry detergent, computers, or long-distance telephone services, measuring the effect of advertising, pricing, and other factors on […]

Apple offers new products and promises, but many users still won't buy it. The future of Apple Computer Inc. in the enterprise is up for grabs. Will the Power Macintosh […]

Going out on a limp By Paul Karon Banyan Systems Inc. wasn't even 10 years old when it ran off to the Saudi and Iraqi deserts to fight with the […]

A Palm executive Tuesday turned the Microsoft remedy hearing to a new topic, offering testimony as to how the software giant could leverage its monopoly in the PC operating system […]

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 […]

Things are tough all over with layoffs and missed earning announcements. No city has fully escaped the nation's economic downturn, but some are better equipped to survive the storm. As […]

GIVEN THE CURRENT state of the economy and emerging technology trends, the once and future kings of the Internet would appear to be local exchange carriers, otherwise known as the […]

Microsoft is facing class-action lawsuits for allegedly using its monopoly power to overcharge customers who bought its Windows operating system in California, Arizona and now in Minnesota. More states are […]

IBM Friday launched an assault against rival Sun, charging that Sun has engaged in a 'desperate effort' to claim the lead in worldwide server sales. Big Blue shot back at […]

THE U.S. COURT of Appeals will dedicate a portion of the oral arguments in the Microsoft antitrust case to reviewing the conduct of U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, who […]

AOL claims Members Made Most Online Holiday Sales By George A. Chidi Jr. IDG News Service America Online Tuesday claimed that its U.S. members account for 70% of consumer spending […]

Despite Microsoft Corp.'s recent warning of bad financial times ahead, the company's market share in PC operating systems and servers may be expanding, according to new research data from IDC. […]

Identifying power is not as easy as looking at revenue and market share. Indeed those are big factors, but we asked the Network World staff, analysts, enterprise users and other […]

Mobile Automation is in a three-way dogfight with Callisto Software and XcelleNet, which also sell management suites for mobile devices. The trio also compete indirectly with data-synchronization and software-distribution vendors […]

MICROSOFT MUST PAY software maker Bristol Technology $3.7 million for legal fees in addition to the $1 million it was ordered to pay the company in September for unfair trade […]

Executives at industry-backed business-to-business electronic marketplaces have little to fear from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). But Ravi Kalakota, chairman of Atlanta-based Hsupply.com, an independent exchange serving the hospitality industry, […]

The European Commission has granted Microsoft an extension to its deadline for a response to charges that it has abused its dominant position to take control of the server software […]

Taxonomies abound trying to make sense of the buzz that is CRM. With so many products claiming to perform CRM, knowing the functions a product automates is a big help. […]

There's an old story about a lawyer whose client was charged with breaking into a house and stealing a TV. The defense? His client was out of town the night […]

Consider this scenario: A powerful platform provider seeks to block out competitors by controlling key software APIs. With nasty public spats, it draws the ire of other IT vendors and […]

ALTHOUGH MICROSOFT plans to appeal its antitrust case in a process that will likely take one or two years and it could settle the case with the Department of Justice, […]

Microsoft last Wednesday issued what the company thought would be its final response to the U.S. government's proposal to split the software titan into two separate companies, paving the way […]

Microsoft Wednesday afternoon issued its final response to the U.S. government's proposal to split the software titan in two, paving the way for U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson […]

THE LOOMING court-ordered breakup of Microsoft poses more questions than it answers for the software giant's vast array of products and initiatives. In the meantime, that uncertainty may crush the […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson sharply questioned Microsoft's attempts to ward off a court-ordered breakup, as both sides in the landmark antitrust trial appeared at a hearing Wednesday […]

REDMOND, WASH. - Microsoft executives refused to comment Wednesday on a federal judge's interest in breaking the software giant into two or perhaps three separate companies as punishment for its […]

THE DEPARTMENT OF Justice lambasted Microsoft's proposal to modify its behavior in an effort to restore competition in the software industry and repeated its call for the software titan to […]

Legal experts and industry analysts for the most part offered a harsh assessment of Microsoft's proposed remedies in the ongoing antitrust case brought against the software maker by the U.S. […]

Microsoft's lead counsel said the company has offered to make 'very considerable concessions' to resolve its antitrust case with the U.S. government. He argued that alternative remedies proposed by the […]

Headline: Gates says government proposal full of holes By John Fontana Network World, 05/10/00 LAS VEGAS - Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates says the government's proposal to break up the company […]

One of the government's key figures in the ongoing antitrust case against Microsoft Tuesday spoke publicly about whether current U.S. antitrust policies should be rethought for the Internet economy. He […]

LAS VEGAS - Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates says the government's proposal to break-up the company includes a number of deficiencies that ensure consumers get 'screwed.' However, the feisty software titan […]

THE EUROPEAN Commission is urging member states to require telecommunications market incumbents to end their exclusive control over the local loop by the end of this year, according to a […]

A EUROPEAN Commission plan to end the stranglehold that former telecommunications monopolies hold over the local loop will lead to major changes in telecom costs and services to consumers, European […]

Last week voice-over-IP vendor Clarent announced plans to acquire ACT Networks for $189 million worth of stock. ACT is best known for voice and data over frame relay and ATM […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The staff of the Federal Communications Commission has told MCI WorldCom and Sprint that they cannot move forward on their merger application until they present yet more […]

The Department of Justice today is expected to propose that a federal judge order the breakup of Microsoft into two competitive companies and impose behavioral restrictions meant to end what […]

As expected, the Department of Justice Friday proposed that a federal judge order the breakup of Microsoft into two separate competing companies. The Justice Department proposal calls for splitting Microsoft […]

Microsoft could be the biggest benefactor of a company breakup, some legal experts Friday predicted after the release of the government's proposed remedies in the historic antitrust case against the […]

WHILE THE U.S. Department of Justice prepares to recommend remedies to restrain Microsoft's monopolistic practices, Microsoft foes have introduced new allegations that the software giant is using Windows 2000 to […]

MCI WorldCom and Sprint last week dismissed a report by a prominent analyst that says the U.S. Department of Justice will block the two carriers' proposed merger. Scott Cleland, lead […]

From the January 1, 2000 issue of PC World. --Cathryn Baskin Almost three years ago, a group of PC World editors gathered around a conference room table while members of […]

The Department of Justice and 19 states this week will ask the judge in the Microsoft antitrust trial to find that the company violated two sections of the Sherman Antitrust […]

MICROSOFT could settle its antitrust case with the U.S. Department of Justice tomorrow, but its legal battles would be far from over. Microsoft -- which has been assigned an antitrust […]

A lot has been written in the aftermath of Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's findings of fact in the Microsoft antitrust case. Today, we'll look at what Microsoft has said. Keep […]

AT&T picked a bad week to be the largest long-distance and cable company in the country. In a span of seven days, its two biggest competitors merged into a larger, […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. - New local carriers say they've found a giant devil in the details in a proposed set of conditions for the pending merger of SBC and Ameritech. Rivals […]