At no time in its history has that ability to cope with change been tested as it has in the year since the government found the Redmond, Wash., company guilty of illegally wielding its monopoly power. The company has faced, and still faces, the possibility of a breakup; it has had to rebuild relationships with software and hardware partners; it has had to cope with the demand for Web-based services—and the competitors that run them—that has emerged; and legal pressures are still there despite the impending ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
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