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Microsoft cuts another antitrust deal | |
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| Time: 11:57 EST/16:57 GMT | News Source: News.com | Posted By: Byron Hinson | ||
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Microsoft once again may have snatched a victory at the settlement table that it might not have been able to achieve in the courtroom. The Redmond, Wash.-based software titan has cut a deal that would dismiss more than 100 pending private antitrust cases against the company. Lawyers brought the majority of the cases last year after a federal judge ruled that Microsoft had violated two sections of the 1890 Sherman Antitrust Act. If approved by a federal judge in Baltimore, the agreement could help Microsoft increase its presence in schools, where rival Apple Computer is the market-share leader. Under proposed terms of the settlement, Microsoft would donate reconditioned computers, software, services and training--valued at more than $1 billion--to 14 percent of the nation's poorest schools, said sources familiar with the agreement. | ||
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| #1 By 135 (209.180.28.6) at 11/20/2001 4:29:38 PM |
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#3. Anderson is by far one of the better names in Windows. I've always been partial to Pella myself, being from Iowa.
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| #2 By 1124 (165.170.128.65) at 11/20/2001 5:14:14 PM |
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These guys knew they could not win, so they all decided to do something that MS is already doing. I think we all win in this case.
I love the idea that the judge decides the amount for the lawyers. I say $1 each and donate the rest to the poor. |
| #3 By 135 (209.180.28.6) at 11/20/2001 5:36:35 PM |
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The other settlement option would be for Microsoft to send every registered buying of Windows 95/98/Me a $10 coupon good towards the purchase of Microsoft Windows XP.
That's what Iomega did when they were sued for misrepresenting Zip drive rebates, sent out coupons good for the sale of new products. Or GM sending out $500 coupons good towards the purchase of a new truck for the gas tank thing. That's how these civil cases are usually settled. Either way the anti-MS crowd wouldn't be happy. The only people who win are the lawyers who get a cash settlement. So one has to ask... Why was the case brought to court? |
| #4 By 931 (24.88.45.192) at 11/21/2001 2:27:46 AM |
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hey #12 I'm #11 sorry just forgot to login :)
darn.. I didn't Know Marta had come up with the same thing.. I missed his show today :( btw I didn't mean to give the impression I dislike MS..I like them just fine. WPA is the only thing that has really pissed me off in recent years with MS. Yeah I read that too about redhat.. jesus they sound desperate. Yeah i can just see it now.. Mrs. Tingle a 2nd grade teacher trying to recompile her kernel to get some usb device to work so she can transer some files at work... yeah that will happen.. NOT! btw If I'm a school budgeter.. I have to likely account for higher training costs, and more admins under the redhat proposal. Not trying to start a ms\redhat debate here but maybe someone could rework the numbers with the RedHat senario and see what the 5 years cost would be.. btw devide the per person cost by 5.. 5 years it's like 27$ a kid peryear.. even less if you figure more kids since you get day 1/8th 5million kids a year in turnover.. This is a great deal for ms..between this and the pending .net releases..... time for me to reinvest in them I think cause I smell profits. |
| #5 By 931 (24.88.45.192) at 11/21/2001 1:35:24 PM |
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show me the damage that was done to consumers.
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| #6 By 135 (209.180.28.6) at 11/21/2001 3:47:52 PM |
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#21. They can't, or at least won't.
The anti-MS whiners are growing ever more tiresome. |
| #7 By 931 (24.88.45.192) at 11/22/2001 2:44:43 AM |
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Apple, Workperfect, Lotus 123, Netscape, Novell
ahhh come one each one of these people shot themselves in the foot or just flat out blew it when it came to the internet bubble. Apple.. shhhhit need I even go into detail WorkPerfect.. yeah it was great, I brought various version of it.. Then around the time of excel5 and word 6.0 I think that's office 4.1 if I recall MS had better features and better printing and at the time offered better integration with powerpoint (vs. harv graph) with excel.. (and I was a HARD CORD qutro pro user).. etc.. just could not compete. Lotus.. same story though I must say I liked 123 till about the office 95 time frame. Novell.. one could say they had the first monoply on the network market.. and they blew it.. no cause of MS, because they were stupid and did not recognise the threat from MS.. they sat on there asses while ms released nt 3.1, they came out with nv3.12.. MS released nt3.5 They should have been ready for that.. they did nothing (continued to hype nv 4.0) ms released 3.51, novell then BLEW the nv4.0 release with a shitload of bugs... well the rest is history.. Nobody an honestly tell me that NV has better products at this point. Netscape.. failed come up with a new business modle when the the market changed on them.. as simple as that, the rest of the crap about oem and preloading is crap.. yeah sure ms was shrude.. you have to be in business. Btw... how did any of this harm me as a consumer again? |
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