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.
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