Author: JT Smith
The Register: “If there was a “stunning victory” for Microsoft Thursday, the DoJ certainly hadn’t
heard of it. Ashcroft stayed on message, and the theme remained very clear: federal
laws have been broken.
heard of it. Ashcroft stayed on message, and the theme remained very clear: federal
laws have been broken.
“My own view is that this is a victory for the Department, and so the Department is
not, I believe, in a weakened position here,” Ashcroft said off script. “The court did
find that Microsoft had engaged in unlawful conduct to maintain its dominant position
in the computer operating system arena.”
