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The Tide Still Turns (4/30/98)
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Goodness, things in the Microsoft antitrust world seem to be moving along at quite a clip. Just yesterday we reported that the eleven states who planned to file an antitrust suit against Microsoft had grown to twelve, with the addition of West Virginia. Well, it turns out that those twelve states are actually thirteen, now that Minnesota has jumped on the bandwagon as well. A New York Times article discusses the probable upcoming lawsuit.
Here's the updated list of all states whose attorneys general are in on this expected suit, as far as we can make out: Illinois, Connecticut, South Carolina, Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, California, Texas, Wisconsin, Minnesota, West Virginia, Florida and Iowa. (We're pleased to see that the home states of your friendly AtAT staff-- Illinois and Wisconsin-- as well as the state in which AtAT currently has its home office-- Massachusetts-- are all involved.) Thirteen states-- that's 26% of the United States of America, representationally speaking. 27%, if you're only counting the continent. It sounds like anti-Microsoft sentiment continues to grow with each passing day. Of course, not everyone is pleased that the government is targeting Microsoft for anticompetitive behavior, as you can see from this Techweb article, but it's clear that a significant segment of the population feels that Microsoft has overstepped its bounds.
Incidentally, does anyone else find it more than a little ironic that in this ongoing Microsoft vs. the United States government struggle, the U.S. government appears to be cast as the underdog? Er, did we say "ironic?" We meant "scary."
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 4/30/98 episode: April 30, 1998: Steve Jobs, apparently after suffering some sort of head trauma, reportedly claims that consumers want $500-700 computers instead of really expensive ones. Meanwhile, a group comes forward to claim responsibility for the "Think Disillusioned" billboard hack, and thirteen states are currently planning an antitrust attack against the Redmond Giant...
Other scenes from that episode: 661: Long Live the New Flesh (4/30/98) Strange days indeed... say what you will about Steve Jobs, but one thing he's never been accused of doing is selling low-priced products. You'll all recall, for instance, the incredibly high margins on Apple computers back in his first stint with the company... 662: Billboard Hijinx Explained (4/30/98) Alas, this week's "Think Disillusioned" hack of an Apple Dalai Lama billboard in Silicon Valley was apparently not the work of prescient extraterrestrials, but rather the handiwork of a group of "eccentric advertising professionals" calling themselves the Billboard Liberation Front...
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