| Sumario: | Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Orrin G. Hatch, R-Utah, has alleged that computer software giant Microsoft Corp., through its efforts to avoid a costly protracted legal battle with the federal government, is effectively admitting that it has engaged in anticompetitive practices. Hatch's comments came after an announcement from the Justice Department on May 14, 1998, that the government and a group of attorneys general would delay filing lawsuits against Microsoft while they continue negotiations to reach a settlement. It had widely been expected that the federal government would file a broad antitrust suit against Microsoft, alleging that it used monopoly power over personal computer operating systems to increase its marker share in other software markets, such as Web browsers.
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