Suffered worse insult when Janet Reno and 20 state attorneys general slammed antitrust suits against Microsoft.
IBM, Oracle and Sun Microsystems, lodged a fresh antitrust complaint against Microsoft to the European Union.
The current antitrust assault against Microsoft could, in theory, help Netscape displace Microsoft on our desktops.
It is being reported that 11 states are also preparing to file anti-trust charges against Microsoft.
But he says H5 helped RealNetworks prepare an antitrust suit against Microsoft a couple of years ago.
In fairness to Intel, the scope of the complaint is much narrower than it is against Microsoft.
She was an executive at Lotus Development, which struggled against Microsoft before being acquired by IBM in 1995.
Even now, Klein believes the government's lawsuit against Microsoft was appropriate, even though he knows Gates would disagree.
But by coming down so unequivocally against Microsoft, Jackson put pressure on Gates to settle with the government.
He has also hired David Boies, an antitrust lawyer who represented the government against Microsoft, to argue his case.
Besides, Box.net will need to move not just against Microsoft but other entrenched players like IBM (NYSE:IBM) and EMC (NYSE:EMC).
Gary Reback is an antitrust lawyer most famous for representing Netscape in its antitrust case against Microsoft in the 1990s.
Mr Lott refers now and then to the antitrust action against Microsoft, making it clear that he regards it as wrong-headed.
In the late 1990s installing Linux was often something of a gesture of defiance against Microsoft's domination of the software industry.
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At the same time, he lobbied antitrust regulators against Microsoft's bundling plans and courted Microsoft's bitter rival in the Web-browser market, Netscape.
The judge's ruling could set off a new round of civil suits against Microsoft, which already faces more than 100 such cases.
The case, of course, is the government's landmark antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft.
But Google concluded that even Firefox could not protect it against Microsoft.
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has hosted fundraisers for Gorton, who made the Justice Department case against Microsoft a key issue in his campaign.
But such lawyers have been successful against big tobacco and vocal against Microsoft (nyse: MSFT - news - people ).
In fact, the judge could still find that the mountains of incriminating evidence he laid out don't support a legal ruling against Microsoft.
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Microsoft has petitioned to be removed from the case, saying there is "no cause of action against Microsoft, " a company representative said by email.
Undoubtedly, the decision by the Department of Justice and 19 states to launch an antitrust suit against Microsoft in 1998 was controversial from the start.
This move lead to the famous antitrust case against Microsoft, but the damage had been done: the concept of paying for a browser became antiquated.
Boies was the U.S. Justice Department's lead lawyer in its successful antitrust case against Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ).
However, if Judge Jackson comes down against Microsoft, he could decide to frame his judgment in terms that restrict the appeal court's room for manoeuvre.
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Two of the charges levelled against Microsoft are that it entered into exclusive contracts and used its control of the desktop unfairly to disadvantage Netscape.
And making Google Apps that much more attractive against Microsoft Office.
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To be sure, Autonomy will have to compete against Microsoft, which has bought FAST, a Norwegian rival, says Madan Sheina of Ovum, a market-research firm.
It is no coincidence that the downward spiral of Nasdaq, after eight years of unprecedented and spectacular growth, begins almost simultaneously with the decision against Microsoft.
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