Microsoft Responds To Ruling

Wed., Jan. 19, 2000

From Staff

Microsoft Corp. told a federal judge Tuesday it “respectfully disagrees” with his ruling that the company is an abusive monopoly, arguing that it doesn’t control the price or availability of software to run the world’s personal computers.

Shunning the monopolist label affixed by U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, Microsoft’s lawyers repeated earlier assertions that the judge inappropriately considered as the company’s only competition other software that runs Intel-compatible PCs.

“This purported market is too narrow … because it excludes many of the most serious competitive threats faced by Microsoft’s operating systems,” the lawyers wrote. “Having an extremely popular product does not make the company a monopolist.”

Settlement talks are expected to continue before a federal mediator in Chicago, though sources speaking on condition of anonymity indicated last week there has been little progress.

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