War of the worlds.
The government's antitrust case against Microsoft has not been undermined by the recent merger of America Online and Netscape—two of Microsoft's biggest rivals—despite the fact that they are two of the government's key witnesses in the largest antitrust case for a generation. The Department of Just...
| Publicado en: | Economist Vol. 349; no. 8096; pp. 15 - 16 |
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Economist Newspaper Limited
November 28 1998
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