Microsoft Case: Awaiting a resolution
eWeek | at | by Mike
When the federal government decided to prosecute Microsoft Corp. for antitrust violations in the high-flying boom times of the late '90s, corporate America was a different place. Back then, the economy was still "new," the advice of Wall Street analysts was widely considered untainted and Martha Stewart's greatest alleged crime was being too prissy. But since spring, when a federal court heard nearly three months of testimony on the punishment to impose on Microsoft for illegally sustaining its monopoly, the business climate has changed dramatically.
When U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly heard a series of Microsoft adversaries charge Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates with strong-arming partners, nobody knew that by summer's end, a number of corporate America's icons would be awash in criminal charges of book-cooking and insider trading.