Netscape notifies Justice Dept. of its Microsoft complaint
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Netscape Communications charges Microsoft with antitrust violations and raises the possibility of a lawsuit, as it notifies the Justice Dept's antitrust division of its complaints. Netscape sent the Justice Dept a copy of its letter to Microsoft, in which Netscape claims that Microsoft's decision to place limits on the number of Internet connections a single copy of Windows NT Workstation may support is improper. Microsoft's customer-licensing agreements specify that only 10 Internet connections may be supported by NT Workstation at any one time. Netscape had been supporting the $319 NT Workstation as a platform fot its $295 Fastrack Server software, saying that users could create a relatively inexpensive Web server by combining the two. The limits on NT Workstation mean that users must buy the more expensive NT Server for use as a Web server. With Microsoft's own Internet server software, NT Server costs $699, a price Netscape says it cannot match if Fastrack and NT Server have to be bought individually.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1996
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If Microsoft loses suit, 19 states plan to seek a radical overhaul
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19 state attorney generals have joined the Department of Justice's anti-trust suit against the Microsoft Corp. If the Department of Justice should win its suit, the states will call for a radical reorganization of the software giant. The outcome of the case is by no means clear at this point, but the states seem to favor a plan to force Microsoft to licenses its source code to spurr instant competition in the operating systen market. Lesser remedies like conduct relief, in which Microsoft would agree to stop certain illegal behaviors, are thought to be meaningless against the software company. Microsoft has changed its behavior very little after past conduct relief agreements. Mircosoft remains certain it will prevail in court.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1999
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