| Sumario: | Despite appearing to have changed its behavior for the better, Microsoft remains a heavy-handed monopolist. In 2000, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson declared that the software company was an “abusive monopolist” and ordered it to be split in two. However, the threat of a break-up seems to have receded, following an appeals-court hearing that went well for the company in February 2001. Microsoft announced in March that it was granting approximately 1,000 of its biggest corporate customers access to 95 percent of the source code of its Windows XP and Windows 2000 operating systems, but this does not mean that Microsoft is about to embrace the open-source model. It is difficult not to conclude that the company has only changed superficially, if at all.
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