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Microsoft Trial Resumes Today

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the does-anyone-really-care dept.

paitre wrote in to remind us that the little trial thing between Microsoft and the DOJ is back in session today after a lengthy recess. News.com has a summary of whats going on over there. Fun stuff coming up includes economics wiz's claiming that MS is a monopoly, and MS will try to prove that IE can be seperated from Win98. I'm sure we're all wetting ourselves.

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  1. It's over by Aiantes · · Score: 5

    Microsoft has lost, folks.

    The rest of this trial will consist of posturing on the part of Microsoft to get the best deal.

    To that extent, the story is dead. What remains to be seen is just how intelligently the Judge will curtail the monopoly that we know and love to hate as "microsoft".

    Hopefully, the Judge will see that breaking Microsoft up is no solution.

    As has been argued quite effectively in a number of places, the key is requiring open standards (API/Networking/etc). But will the Judge appreciate this fact?

    Let's hope so. Requiring open standards would effectively de-claw what, so far as I can tell, is the only weapon Microsoft can use against the open source community: closing or "decomoditizing" (sp?) standards.