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Bill Gates may have been out of his element, but he remained calmly on message: Proposed remedies for his companys monopolistic behavior would mean the end of computing as we know it. Microsoft Corp.s chairman and chief software architect took the witness stand in U.S. District Court here early last week to defend the Redmond, […]

The group of states seeking stringent antitrust remedies against Microsoft Corp. are pressing forward on a concession made by Bill Gates Wednesday that existing Microsoft technology enables versions of Windows in which the operating system is unbundled from other features. An unbundled, or modular, version of Windows is one or the primary remedies the states […]

Wrapping up two and a half days of testimony defending his company against stiff remedies proposed by a group of nine non-settling states, Bill Gates painted a grim view of the future of software if the proposal is approved. “Microsoft R&D at best would go into a 10-year period of hibernation,” Microsoft Corp.s chairman and […]

WASHINGTON, D.C.—If a group of states seeking antitrust remedies against Microsoft Corp. gets its way, the Redmond, Wash., software maker could be forced to make code available to individuals forbidden by U.S. law from seeing it, license versions of Windows with serious known security flaws, and stop issuing emergency security patches, according to its chairman, […]

WASHINGTON — Microsoft Corp. Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates took the witness stand just after noon Monday to defend his company against the antitrust proposal set forth by nine states and the District of Columbia to remedy Microsofts anti-competitive conduct. For the direct testimony of Bill Gates, click here Gates said that the […]

A new breed of vendor is cropping up to aid financial institutions trying to comply with anti-money-laundering rules enacted following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The number of potential users of such aid continues to grow as the scope of the USA Patriot Act expands to require not just banks and large investment houses but […]

NextHop Technologies Inc. and IBM are set to mate software and chips in a router platform that delivers programmable switching and routing for service providers looking to deliver advanced IP services. Among obstacles to the wide deployment of new IP services is the Internets rapid growth. While router makers have churned out ever-more-sophisticated gear in […]

Federal regulators are hinting that they see enough competition in local telephone service to warrant giving Bell telephone companies some slack in their obligation to lease portions of their networks to rivals. Whats more, regulators said, such relief might spur the Bells to make more investments in broadband infrastructure. But to rivals struggling to break […]

Economist Carl Shapiro, the 15th witness called by a group of states and the District of Columbia to defend proposed remedies against Microsoft Corp. in the landmark antitrust case, took the stand Thursday. In a surprise to many courtroom observers, Shapiro did not endorse every provision in the states proposal. “I dont presume to know […]

WASHINGTON – Microsoft Corp. spent the better part of its court time Wednesday quizzing an expert witness on the definitions of terms in the antitrust remedy proposed by nine states and the District of Columbia. The Redmond, Wash., software maker tried to show the U.S. District Court here that the states remedy is vague and […]

WASHINGTON–Microsoft Corp.s .Net Passport authentication system has the potential to lock large enterprises into a “Microsoft-controlled world,” according to a Sun Microsystems Inc. executive who testified on Tuesday in the ongoing proceeding to establish anti-trust remedies against the Redmond, Wash., software maker. Jonathan Schwartz, chief strategy officer at Sun, was the latest witness called by […]

Any time data travels on the public network, even for a comparatively small portion of a trip, no service provider can offer a 100 percent guarantee of the delivery performance. Nonetheless, ISPs are beginning to offer SLAs designed to approach the reliability and availability of private networking. While ISPs may not be ready for the […]