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...Rise of Joel Klein The Justice Department antitrust tyro's first shot across Microsoft's bow (over the bundling of Windows 95 and Internet Explorer) served notice to Silicon Valley that there's a new, tech-savvy sheriff in town. Next in his scope: the looming battle over Windows 98 and a closer look at microchip colossus Intel...
...made Intel boss Andy Grove its 1997 man of the year. But while the California chip-makers are popping champagne corks, the Windows part of the "Wintel" axis has spent the week shrouded in gloom. The Justice Department has sunk its teeth into Microsoft, and neither Janet Reno nor Joel Klein seem inclined...
...District Court: Hold Microsoft in contempt, this time for evading the unbundling order. "Microsoft's naked attempt to defeat the purpose of the court order and to further its litigation strategy is an affront to the court's authority," the government asserted in papers. Trustbuster Joel Klein went on: "Microsoft has gone from tying its products to tying the hands of its vendors," he said. "The more Microsoft continues this practice, the more consumers are harmed...
...sure, and ruled that the possibility of a Microsoft monopoly was simply too great to be ignored until the suit was settled ? which could take some time, especially since the judge appointed a top legal scholar from Harvard to study the case and make recommendations. Not surprisingly, Joel Klein ? the DOJ's top trustbuster ? was cock-a-hoop. "Starting tomorrow, choice will be restored to the public," he told reporters Thursday. Added his boss, Janet Reno: "It will help ensure a competitive market and prevent Microsoft from using its dominance to gain an unfair advantage in the browser market...
...action be pursued in the absence of dialogue, is to degrade the power of communication that makes deliberative democracy worth pursuing. Look deeply into the national dialogue on race: there is some intense power latent in those discussions--a power that President Clinton should be praised for grappling with. --Joel B. Pollak...