As Microsoft trial gets started, Gates's credibility is questioned; U.S. depicts company out to crush competitors
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The Government opened the antitrust trial against Microsoft by challenging company Chmn Bill Gates's credibility and integrity. David Boies, the Justice Department's lead attorney, attempted to demonstrate that Gates participated in key meetings in which Microsoft allegedly offered to divide the Web browser market with rival Netscape. Boies spent two hours presenting more than 12 memos and E-mail written by Gates since 1995, in an effort to portray Microsoft as obsessed with destroying Netscape and bullying any other company that would do business with Netscape. Portions of a taped deposition by Gates showed an executive who said he was unfamiliar with the main charges that the Justice Department and 20 states filed against his company. A key point in the Government's suit accuses Microsoft of bundling its Internet Explorer browser with its Windows OS to eliminate Netscape's Navigator browser. Microsoft, which will present its opening remarks today, blasted the evidence as circumstantial.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1998
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U.S. faults depositions of Microsoft executives
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A public Justice Department court document blasted Microsoft Chmn William H. Gates and other senior company executives for failure to remember writing or receiving documents when questioned under oath for the Justice Department's antitrust suit against Microsoft. The new assertion leads several new pieces of evidence for the trial scheduled to begin on Sep 23, 1998, in which the Government plans to introduce as a pattern of Microsoft's actions. The Justice Department singled out Gates's private testimony for its particular lack of recall despite his name's appearance in numerous documents that chronicled important events. Among the 89-page brief's other allegations are that Microsoft attempted to intimidate Intel, Apple, Real Networks, Intuit and other companies not previously mentioned in the case. Microsoft said the brief lacks merit, adding that Gates cannot be expected to memorize the hundreds of E-mail messages he receives each day.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1998
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Bill envy or Billophobia? Or, why it's Gates versus the rest of the world
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Microsoft Corp. CEO Bill Gates is widely despised among his rivals in the computer software and high technology industries due to his hardball tactics. If Microsoft desires to entire a new market, it will offer to buy a firm, and if the firm refuses, it will buy one of the firm's rivals, thus propelling the rival to the top of its market due to Microsoft's marketing power. Microsoft's monopolistic tactics have drawn the attention of the US Justice Dept.
Publication Name: Business Review Weekly
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0727-758X
Year: 1997
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