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...William Neukom, the company’s chief legal officer, will be in Washington this week, in what is reportedly an effort to present the Justice Department with settlement options. The Antitrust Division should remember its charge, and not fold its cards at the critical moment in the case’s development. There is a difference between reasonable concession and abandoning of principles, and the Justice Department cannot afford to get any closer to that line...
...WILLIAM NEUKOM Hey, nice job on the Microsoft defense. Hint: slap yer client, and try to resolve on appeal...
...Microsoft attorney William Neukom plans to push for an extension of the company's May 10 deadline for responding to last Friday's Justice Department proposal. Microsoft will want "months and months" of additional hearings in front of Jackson, who ruled on April 3 that the company had illegally and repeatedly used its monopoly power to stifle innovation. A final decision by Jackson might not come until the end of summer. Even then, any breakup that the judge might call for would be on hold until the appeals process is done. That's why Klein and the states want Jackson...
...declared. Under questioning, he again professed to be interested in a settlement--but quickly veered off into a monologue about the importance of building "great software" and maintaining the freedom to innovate. If anyone in the audience was confused into thinking Gates was giving in, Microsoft general counsel Bill Neukom stepped up next to explain what his boss was really saying. No, the company had no intention of backing down. "We are in it," he said, "for the long haul...
Microsoft's most intriguing argument is that the industry model it dominates--PCs that run on their own operating-system software--is in peril. "When you think of competition, you have to get out of the mind-set that this is a PC-centered world," says Neukom. In the near future, Microsoft argues, computers may run on free, open-source software, or may use the Internet as a platform for running applications like word processing and e-mail, making Windows obsolete. In Microsoft's view, its dominant market position is just one paradigm shift away from being undone...