Despite Microsoft's confidence that it will ultimately prevail in its federal court battle, critics feel the company is playing with fire in its recent maneuvers. With Microsoft's inclusion of so-called smart tags and other technologies in the forthcoming Windows XP operating system, legal experts say the company is practicing the same types of behavior that got it in trouble in the first place. "What we have here is a very aggressive, monopolist working way beyond what are appropriate standards for its activities," said John Soma, who was part of the U.S. Department of Justice's legal team on the IBM anti trust case and is now a law professor at the University of Denver. "The totality of all the technologies Microsoft is bundling and all the other initiatives it has introduced will effectively ... limit competition."
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