After months of anticipation, a judge last week rejected Microsoft Corp.'s bid to suspend two key European antitrust remedies. But long before that, a separate case involving a company called Macrosoft provided some reliable clues to the decision.
That was the thinly veiled name of the imaginary corporation in a fictional antitrust case concocted by London's Financial Times newspaper. The paper conceived the scenario for purposes of a hypothetical question that it posed to Bo Vesterdorf, a judge in the European Court of First Instance, in an interview more than a year ago.
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