Another antitrust story? Oh, I couldn’t

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Author: JT Smith

TheStandard comments on Microsoft’s latest antitrust difficulties. “Here’s a great idea for a niche magazine: Microsoft Antitrust
Weekly. Not one but three MS legal battles got new angles this
week, so there’d be plenty of fodder for the first issue.

First, Microsoft settled a lawsuit with Bristol Technologies.
Coverage tended to be brief, possibly because both companies
kept their lips zipped. (The Register calls the companies’ joint
press release ‘tersely uninformative.’) The Hartford Courant
was on top of the home-state story, leading with the
sentence, ‘This time, Goliath settled.’ ”