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Re: What would be your proposed final judgement?
Author: Dori Smith Posted: 4/30/2000; 3:49:42 PM Topic: scriptingNews outline for 4/29/2000 Msg #: 16835 (In response to 16804) Prev/Next: 16833 / 16836
What would be the proposed solutions to MS Abuse of Monopoly?Here's what I think should happen:
Bill Gates calls a press conference in early May to make an announcement. He says, basically, that it's time for MS to put the DoJ lawsuit behind them, and get back to work writing software. Consequently, MS is voluntarily going to split into three parts.
Company 1: Windows, Inc.
This company gets all versions of MS OSs, from servers to consumer machines to handhelds. It also takes on all languages and developer tools. CEO: Bill GatesCompany 2: Microsoft
This company gets everything that's not in Windows, Inc., that isn't Internet related. Office, content, games, mice, keyboards, Encarta, etc. CEO: Steve BallmerCompany 3: Internet Division
This isn't a real company, because Netscape already proved that there's no way for this division to stand on its own. MS chooses as part of the breakup to sell this division to Charter Communications. This division includes IE, IIS, FrontPage, and MSN. CEO: Paul AllenI wish I knew more about the economics of this, but I suspect that in the above scenario that Windows, Inc. would be a privately held company. There's an interesting thought or two there.
Dori
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