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But they did nail it on the Internet is all about that are bundled with every compatible consumer PC, makes the number-one its breath-taking anti-competitive business 82 database on its platform (but markets it under a different company name), practices: bullying, threatening and giving pressures its users into using one particular Web browser, and is also trying away for free whatever its rivals sold for a living. honing your search techniques to dominate the ultra-lucrative market of Internet streaming-media? Despite Microsoft bending further from the truth than Hans Every government in the world should be demanding that this rampant Christian Andersen, keeping its mouth shut tighter than Harpo Marx, and monopolist be split into three or four separate companies – especially as this doctoring vital courtroom video evidence, the lawyers got their prey. Now know-how. We give you the company even makes every single computer that can run its operating system. they want to nobble it. Microsoft won’t give in without a very long drawn-out Yes, I’m talking about Apple. I’m not suggesting that Apple should be torn appeal, so don’t expect an end to hostilities before Christmas. definitive ‘how and where’ apart by the feds or Eurocrats. The Mac maker is, after all, holding on to only Microsoft should certainly be punished for its anti-competitive practices, 5 per cent of the personal-computer market. especially as some of these were aimed at our very own Apple. But I’m more Over the years many analysts have suggested that splitting Apple into than a little worried by a Microsoft split into equally dangerous pieces. guide to finding what you separate software and hardware business units would benefit the company. While business dominance and operating-system hegemony no doubt Apple Soft could develop the Mac OS to run on Intel processors, and sell more helped Microsoft sew up the business-applications market, some level of copies of ClarisWorks and FileMaker Pro to millions of Windows users. Apple blame should be shouldered by those companies that threw up their hands want on the World Wide Web. Hard could make great-looking and super-powerful computers not only for the and gave in. I can’t see how you can attack Microsoft for selling lots of copies Mac OS, but for Windows and Linux as well. Apple wouldn’t be suing so many of Word, Excel and PowerPoint when these are best-of-breed applications. copycat PC makers if it made iMacs for Windows itself. What else is there on the Mac to rival Word? Corel has done nothing to Microsoft, on the other hand, is a whole new pack of tigers. Yet, the US WordPerfect for years. As for spreadsheets that rival Excel… Justice Department is demanding that the Bill Gates empire be chopped into The US Justice Department believes that the best competitor to Windows competitive parts. A few years back, Bill suddenly realized that the Internet will come from a Microsoft Office company. What does that say about all the really was going to be so huge that even his operating system and business- other software companies out there? applications monopoly was in danger from new network-based technologies. Imagine the possible consequences of a double-headed Bill Gates… Bill ordered his company into one of the most radical and successful business- As far as I can see it, the break-up proposal will lead to two monopolies strategy U-turns of all time. It was like Coca-Cola suddenly making biscuits. instead of one. Cutting a beast like Microsoft into two pieces won’t make Microsoft soon had the number-one Web browser in the world. each section half as powerful. Wounded only to begin with, it’s more likely contents Its consumer OS, Windows 98, had Internet Explorer built right into it. to be just as hungry and twice as angry. Yes, we might get Office for Linux Using Netscape Navigator, would just be silly. And Microsoft spent over – but all that’s going to achieve is certain death to all the little companies $2 billion making Windows 2000 much more than just Internet ready. developing business apps for the fledgling operating system. On top of all that, Microsoft is threatening to move into games hardware Bisecting Apple into competing business units is probably still a worthy with its X Box (three times more powerful than Sony’s PlayStation2), and into topic of debate. Hacking up Microsoft is surely half baked. You don’t need June 2000 WALKER JAMES PHOTOGRAPHY:MIKECOVER LAYE/ILLUSTRATOR the burgeoning handheld and Web-appliance markets. to have a sweet-tooth for Bill Gates to see that this is a bananas split. 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