Microsoft deal worries Apple

Article Abstract:

Apple Computer's chief executive, Steve Jobs, is highly critical of the proposed settlement of Microsoft's antitrust suit, noting that it would encourage Microsoft to unfairly enter the education market, one of the few markets where Microsoft doesn't have monopoly power. The settlement would entail Microsoft donating over $1 billion in software and computers to poor schools. Apple's share of the overall market for personal computers is a mere 4 percent, but it estimates that around 47 percent of computers used in U.S. schools are Apple or MacIntosh systems. Critics and advocates of the settlement have made their presentations in court, and Judge J. Frederick Motz said he will rule by mid-December whether to accept the settlement or not.

Electronic computers, Prepackaged software, Computer Software, Software Publishers, Electronic Computer Manufacturing, Computers & Auxiliary Equip, Analysis, Planning, Computer software industry, Computer industry, Software industry, Software, Cases, Microsoft Corp., Donations, Antitrust law, AAPL, Unfair competition (Commerce), Unfair competition, Computer-assisted instruction, Computer assisted instruction, MSFT, Technology in education, Antitrust issue, Apple Inc.

---

Why the Web's not ready for prime time

Article Abstract:

Industry analysts said that the proposed merger between Dulles, Va.-based America Online Inc. and New York, NY-based Time Warner Inc. cannot overcome the problems still plaguing the development of the Internet. The merging of television and online services will require major technological innovations.

Diversified Companies, Acquisitions & mergers, Forecasts, trends, outlooks, Telegraph & other communications, Mergers, acquisitions and divestments, Internet, Internet service providers, Forecasts and trends, Time Warner Inc., America Online Inc., AOL

---

Similar abstracts:

• Abstracts: Nabisco deal forms Canadian giant. AMC tops Onex bid for GC movie chain. Onex takes reins of U.S. cinema chain
• Abstracts: Microsoft shares pummelled amid breakup reports. Breakup fear bleeds Microsoft
• Abstracts: Royal Bank tries wooing skeptical MPs. Silence may be golden for Thiessen
• Abstracts: Attention deficit disorder. Australia beware the unholy trinity. Back to the banana republic
• Abstracts: Waters family defends dual-price stock sale. Chum not for sale, founder's son vows

This website is not affiliated with document authors or copyright owners. This page is provided for informational purposes only. Unintentional errors are possible.