Microsoft is only ONE of hundreds of monopolies.
The judge's findings are clear that there is no crime in being a monopoly. It is what you do as a monopoly that can be a crime. Microsoft has run other companies out of business for years through questionable practices. DR-DOS, Word-Perfect, Paradox, Borland Compilers and Stacker to name a few. What makes the case different now is the clarity. All of those other products competed from the start with a Microsoft product and it could not be proven that it was the anti-competitive behavior which caused their demise. With Netscape there was a clear innovator with a commanding market presence and no competing Microsoft product. The actions by the Microsoft team were accordingly very clear and directed.
-The same pain-in-the neck government that is spending
millions keeping a foreign boy from his father
Your facts here are just wrong, completely wrong. It is not the government which is separating this family, unless you are refering to actions by the Miami municipal officials.
When Microsoft is broken up, the pieces are going to be worth much more than the company is today (or last week). The obsession with gaining control of software by linkage to Windows has stymied work in growing areas of wireless, internet applications, and appliance devices all of which do not need Windows to operate. You don't understand how useful it would be to have a varient of windows that accomplishes remote login. Microsoft today is similar to a Soviet planned economy, everyone gets what the committee decides, and their primary decisions are to protect themselves.
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