Why Bill Gates should worry
A ruling forcing Microsoft to unbundle its web browser is only one battle in a bigger war about antitrust policy and high-tech firms
HAS America turned against its sexiest company? Until recently Bill Gates was seen as bespectacled proof that not every great fortune had to be based on a great crime. Yet over the past few months, Microsoft's alleged sins have been trumpeted at a special Senate hearing, at a conference convened by Ralph Nader, a famous consumer activist, and of course by the many Silicon Valley firms that want to replace Microsoft's ubiquitous Windows with a new operating system based around the Java Internet language and Netscape's Navigator browser.
This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “Why Bill Gates should worry”
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