At Microsoft's home base, vitriol and a sense of unfairness

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The U.S. Department of Justice and the attorneys general from 17 states filed a formal proposal with Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson requesting that Microsoft Corp. be broken up into two separate companies. The proposal cited Microsoft's practice of bundling of its Internet Web browser with its Windows operating system as evidience of the company's anti-competitive behavior. Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, president and CEO Steve Balmer and numerous other employees of the computer software giant voiced disappointment at the federal government's proposal and remained confident that the decision would be overturned on appeal. Gates said that the government's "old economy" approach in determining Microsoft's culpability was not consistent with high technology's way of creating, sustaining and building successful "new economy" businesses.

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Microsoft plans to shift product focus to the Internet

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Microsoft Corp. announced that it is shifting its focus away from providing software for personal computers and begin developing Internet-based software products. In making the announcement, Bill Gates said the company's Windows-based Web browser will evolve to a "universal canvas" to be used by consumers as their primary interface with various Internet appliances and services. Development of the new software platform, named .NET, is expected to go forward in spite of the recent company's antitrust difficulties. Though restrictions placed upon Microsoft by the courts would have hampered .NET's development, the restrictions were suspended when the company appealed its conviction to the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Interviews of judge in case reflect bias, Microsoft says

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Microsoft is now attacking the impartiality of Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson who ruled against the corporation in the Justice Dept.'s antitrust case against it. The company maintains that Judge Jackson made derisive comments about Microsoft and that these comments, rather than prevailing antitrust law or the facts of the case, helped seal his guilty verdict. The 19 states that joined the antitrust suit against Microsoft and the Justice Dept., in a brief filed on Jan. 12, 2001, argued that previous comments made by the judge do not constitute partiality.

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