Recent Wired News coverage of the Microsoft antitrust case:
Key Events:
Antitrust Settlement Talks End
An intensive effort to avert a federal and state lawsuit ends in apparent failure. Next: a legal action attacking the software company's alleged use of its PC operating-system monopoly to crush competitors.
16.May.98
Msoft Tries to Avert Win98 Suit
Amid signs that negotiations are on a fast track, government antitrust enforcers put off filing a widely anticipated lawsuit and the company agrees to delay releasing its new operating system.
14.May.98
Gates Urges Government to Leave Innovators Alone
The Microsoft chief finds a less-than-sympathetic audience today at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing called to examine competitive practices in the computer industry.
3.Mar.98
Partial Settlement In MS-DOJ Case
An out-of-court agreement resolves part of the bundling quarrel, but doesn't deal with the larger issues in the case.
22.Jan.98
Microsoft Appeals Unbundling Order
The software superpower says a federal judge's ruling goes beyond the scope of a government prosecutors' request for action.
15.Dec.97
Split Decision in MS Antitrust Case
The software superpower is told it can't force computer-makers to bundle its browser with its OS - but is spared those US$1 million-a-day fines. What the ruling will mean for Windows 98 is still anybody's guess.
11.Dec.97
Feds Seek Fine, Contempt Order against Microsoft
In harsh terms, the Justice Department says the company has tried to strong-arm PC-makers as part of its browser war with Netscape. Microsoft says it's doing nothing that a 1995 court agreement doesn't allow.
20.Oct.97
Other Critical Developments:
Gates, Godzilla ... Godzilla, Gates
20.May.98
Clinton Backs Prosecutors
17.May.98
D-Day Looms for Redmond
13.May.98
Win95 Court Decision Overruled
12.May.98
Microsoft Plays the Polls
8.May.98
Justice, Microsoft Spar on Win 98
7.May.98
Pol Riled by Microsoft-Case Whispers
9.Apr.98
Microsoft Spends as it Defends
18.Mar.98
A Shift in Microsoft Appeals Panel
18.Mar.98
Add Sun to the Justice Probe List
17.Mar.98
Lessig Leaning Against Microsoft
16.Mar.98
New Justice Infotech Guru No Geek
12.Mar.98
Justice Department Names Tech Counsel
11.Mar.98
Microsoft: Judge's Ruling Makes No Sense
10.Mar.98
Hatch Keeps Pressure on Microsoft
5.Mar.98
Gates: 'MSoft Not a Net Monopoly'
3.Mar.98
Steve Jobs? He Wasn't Invited
3.Mar.98
A Day of Tired Rhetoric on MSoft Front
3.Mar.98
Gates: 'Keep Hands off Innovators'
3.Mar.98
Microsoft Takes IE Into Uncharted Waters
24.Feb.98
Updata: Reback's Epilog
12.Feb.98
Senators Tangle over Microsoft Probe
5.Feb.97
Gates Turns Up Anti-DOJ Rhetoric
27.Jan.98
Microsoft, Judge Clash over Order
13.Jan.98
Microsoft: We're Sorry, but Unbowed
8.Jan.98
Microsoft Once Again Claims Bias in Court Case
7.Jan.98
US Dares Microsoft on Bias Accusations
5.Jan.98
Microsoft Flings New Legal Grenades
26.Dec.97
More Noise from Microsoft
24.Dec.97
Judge Expresses Doubt on Microsoft Claim
19.Dec.97
Critics: Microsoft Blows Browser Smoke
18.Dec.97
Microsoft: Court Action Could Harm America
17.Dec.97
Netscape Takes a Swipe at Microsoft
16.Dec.97
Analysis: Redmond to Judge - [Expletive Deleted]
15.Dec.97
Microsoft Seeks to File More Documents
11.Dec.97
Newly Appointed 'Special Master' to Probe MS Issues
11.Dec.97
Judge Jackson Leaves 'Em Hanging
5.Dec.97
Netscape Fires Stat Salvo
26.Nov.97
Feds: Microsoft Trying to Rewrite History
20.Nov.97
MS Confab Filled with Worry, Spin, Backbiting
13.Nov.97
Nader: MS Big, Bad, and Getting Bigger, Badder
13.Nov.97
Gates vs. Reno, Round Two
12.Nov.97
