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...prosecutors broke down, a development Klein learned about while working on the weekend in his third-floor office at Justice. That day, Klein polled five members of his core team and learned that none of them had been happy with the mediation talks anyway. Each and every one said, "Split the company in two," and then they all began to work on finalizing the details. "People have been in here night in and night out for the past several weeks," Klein says. "There are still pizza boxes in the hallways." The result was a breakup proposal that Justice then shopped...
...illegally squashed? "It's a gamble," says lawyer and economist Robert Litan, of the Brookings Institution, who once worked for the Justice Department's antitrust division. Litan, who believes the Feds should go even further, joined three fellow economists in a separate brief that called for Microsoft to be split into three competing pieces. The trouble with Klein's remedy, Litan argues, is that where once there was one monopoly there now could be two--the applications and Windows sides--with the possibility that they will find a way to collude...
From Microsoft's perspective, no breakup is even remotely thinkable. Gates says it's functionally impossible to split the operating system from the applications side. Why? They're interdependent, he insists, and enhance each other. Microsofties point out that consumers, understandably, love that. Moreover, says Gates, "Microsoft could never have developed Windows under these rules." Indeed, by any measure, breaking up is hard...
...tanked 43% from its Dec. 30 high--wiping out $270 billion of shareholder wealth--investors have a rare chance to buy this juggernaut on sale. The trouble, of course, is that legal issues have become paramount, underscored last Friday when the Department of Justice asked that Microsoft be split in two. Until the legal cloud lifts, the stock will defy normal analysis--not unlike a tobacco stock...
Harvard was happy to get the weekend split, even if it meant sitting through its first Ivy loss with the title a win away...