The eternal antitrust case: Microsoft versus the world

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Sep 27, 2010 11:14 PM EDT
ars technica; By Matthew Lasar
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"The worst thing that could come of this is I could fall down the steps of the FTC building, hit my head and kill myself," quipped Microsoft Chairman William H. Gates in 1992, as the Federal Trade Commission launched an investigation of his company. But nobody joked on the third day of April, 2000, as Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson delivered his decision on what had morphed into the biggest software antitrust case in history: The United States of America vs. Microsoft.

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