• Selected news stories regarding Microsoft and anticompetitive conduct.
• Discussions of antitrust remedies.

CPT on Microsoft antitrust issues

• James Love, November 16, 1998, Computer Reseller News, Great Divide: Too Much Government Or Not Enough?: Call to split up Microsoft.
• Ralph Nader and James Love, November 9, 1998, in ComputerWorld, Why Microsoft Must be Stopped. This article was also published on the CNN web site, with a quick vote.
• James Love, November 8, 1998 in the San Jose Mercury News, Microsoft misreads history, message of antitrust laws.
• October 19, 1998 CPT statement on Microsoft Trial.
• James Love, Spring 1998, Microsoft's Overreaching Definition of Operating System in Corporations, Securities, and Antitrust News, Published by the E. L. Wiegand Practice Groups of the Federalist Society, Vol. 2, No. 1.
• Items on alternative operating systems
  • CPT page on alternative operating systems.
  • September 4, 1998 letter by Ralph Nader and James Love to Michael Dell, asking can we buy 2 PCs with Linux?
  • June 17, 1998 Note on Operating Systems and OEMS, from Info-Policy-Notes..
  • June 15, 1998 letter by Ralph Nader and James Love to Joel Klein at Department of Justice regarding barriers to entry for alternative operating systems.
  • June 8, 1998. Ralph and James Love letter to IBM CEO Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. telling Mr. Gerstner "IBM should consider following the Netscape example and release the source code for OS2, and permit computer users to modify and freely distribute copies of OS2."
  • David Chun, June 3, 1998, survey, Required to Buy Windows.
  • June 8, 1998. Ralph and James Love letter to Michael Dell, asking that he "reconsider Dell's practices and to fight for the right for your consumers to make real choices regarding the software systems they want to run on Dell computers." This responds to a May 27, 1998 letter by T.R. Reid, the Senior Manager of Corporate Public Relations, to Ralph Nader and James Love, which responded to an earlier, March 9, 1998 letter asking that Dell make it possible for consumers to have a choice of buying a Dell computer with an operating system other than Windows.
  • March 9, 1998, Info-Policy-Notes discussion of Ralph Nader and CPT letters to six computer manufacturers asking that they offer consumers a choice of PC operating systems. See also copies of the letters to: Compaq, Dell, Gateway 2000, Hewlett-Packard, Micron, and Packard Bell-NEC.
• April 20, 1998, Ralph Nader and James Love, Microsoft's Ambitions and Antitrust Policy, Remarks at the April 20, 1998 Cato Institution Policy Forum on Antitrust and Microsoft.
• January 22, 1998, James Love, Microsoft control over Internet navigation. Addresses issues relating to Microsoft' Internet Explorer menu structures and search engine technologies, and implications for content providers.
• January 2, 1998, Ralph Nader and James Love, "Microsoft Denies Choice," guest editorial in USA Today.
• December 18, 1997, Remedies for Microsoft anticompetitive practices -- One model is the EC's 1984 IBM Undertaking, From Info-Policy-Notes. For additional information on IBM antitrust cases, including the full text of the 1984 EC undertaking, see http://www.essential.org/antitrust/ibm.
• November 24, 1997, "MS OS and MS Applications - How Leverage Works," Info-Policy-Notes. Includes discussion of Jim Allchin memo and Microsoft licensing of updated copies of COMCTL32.DLL, the "Common Control" file from the windows operating system.
• November 20, 1997, James Packard Love, "Halting Microsoft's Hegemony," from Intellectualcaptial.com.
• November 1997, Ralph and James Love, "What to do about Microsoft," from Le Monde Diplomatique.
• October 29, 1997, Ralph Nader, "The Microsoft Menace: Why I'm leading a crusade to stop its drive for cyberspace hegemony," in Slate.
• Sign-on letter to DOJ concerning Microsoft and Browser Market.
• July 26, 1995, letter to President Bill Clinton, regard the Microsoft Windows 95 Registration Wizard, published on the web in the July 31, 1995 issue of TAP-INFO.
• May 22, 1995, Microsoft & others oppose interoperability in HR 1555, from TAP-INFO, now known as Info-Policy-notes. This concerns 1995 disputes over interoperability requirements for Cable Set-Top boxes.
• July 20, 1994 "Set-Top" box debate and open interfaces.
• Exchange on wealth disparties. These really don't belong on the antitrust page, and the links will be moved when we figure out where to put them. July 27, 1998 letter from Ralph Nader to Bill Gates concerning wealth disparities, plus Bill Gate's August 4, 1998 response.

Microsoft's views

• Microsoft's Microsoft's press pass page
• Microsoft's Legal Issues page, with info on various antitrust and other law suits.

Legal Documents

• The US Department of Justice has a main index for documents from several different antitrust actions against Microsoft.
• Microsoft has an index of legal documents on its presspass page.
• Bristol Technology's web page on its antitrust suit against Microsoft.
• Caldera's page on its lawsuit with Microsoft.
• Law Journal Extra's web page of the LJX files: Legal Pleadings in United States v. Microsoft.
• ProComp's web page, which includes court transcripts from the US DOJ/MS trial.
• Particular pleadings
  • November 20, 1997, of special note is DOJ's reply brief, which contains references to Jim Allchin's December 20, 1996 memo regarding leveraging Windows to promote Microsoft Explorer.
  • November 20, 1997, the amicus brief in the MS/DOJ case filed by the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA).
  • This is the April 27, 1995, US DOJ complaint to stop Microsoft/Quicken merger.
  • April 6, 1995, Gary L. Reback's anonymous amici curiae brief in the 1995 consent degree proceeding.
  • February 14, 1995, U.S. District Judge Stanley Sporkin's opinion rejecting the proposed antitrust settlement between the Justice Department and Microsoft Corp.

Other Commentary and documents on Microsoft

• January 7, 1999, Bernard J. Reddy, David S. Evans, and Albert L. Nichols Why Does Microsoft Charge so Little for Windows?. This is a study prepared by N.E.R.A., a consulting firm that does for hire "expert" testimony. N.E.R.A. Microsoft claims the copyright on this report.
• October 4, 1998, Andrew Watson, Predatory Pricing in the Software Industry, 23 Rutgers L. Rec. 1.
• October 1998 and January 1999 reports by Consumer Federation of America and others (MAP and PIRG) on Microsoft.
• The conservative and libertarian Federalist Society held a conference on Microsoft on September 23, 1998. These are the notes from the proceedings. The Chicago chapter of the Federalist Society has this site Who's Afraid of Microsoft: Is the antitrust action justified?"
• A Corporate Watch Interview with Noam Chomsky - Corporate Watch's Anna Couey and Joshua Karliner caught up with Noam Chomsky by telephone at his home in the Boston area to ask him about Microsoft and Bill Gates. The following is a transcript of [their] far ranging conversation.
• February 19, 1998, "Microsoft and the Browser Wars, Fit To Be Tied," Cato Policy Analysis No. 296, by Robert A. Levy. This is a detailed defense of Microsoft.
• January/February 1998, Rachel Burstein's report in Mother Jones regarding Microsoft and the Business Software Alliance (BSA). Specifically, Burstein reports that Microsoft uses evidence collected by BSA about software piracy to bully companies into switching to Microsoft's products, often at the expense of BSA's other members.
• November 23, 1997, James Gleick's "Justice Delayed," first published in the New York Times Magazine.
• November 13, 1997. Adam D. Thierer's The Department of Justice's Unjustifiable Inquisition of Microsoft," which was timed for release to coincide with Essential Information's "Appraising Microsoft" conference. Adam Thierer is a fellow at the Heritage Foundation. Microsoft has been distributing his paper very widely. It is Microsoft's brief, so to speak.
• November 5, 1995, James Gleick's Making Microsoft Safe for Capitalism The New York Times Magazine.
• February 1995, Technological, Economic and Legal Perspectives Regarding Microsoft's Business Strategy in Light of the Proposed Aquisition of Intuit, Inc. , by Gary Reback, Susan Creighton, David Killam and Neil Nathanson of Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati.
• Stan Liebowitz, who has been a consultant to Microsoft, and who has been showcased by Microsoft's PR firms, has written (or co-authored) a number of papers which are critical of DOJ's antitrust actions, Gary Reback's white papers, or Brian Arthur's work on increasing returns. His personal web page has links to three magazine articles of general interest, plus links to five earlier papers he has written with Steve Margolis on Network Externalities.
• Oh No, Mr. Bill! The Inside Story of the US Governments' Antitrust Case Against Microsoft By Wendy Goldman, from Wired.
• 1994, W. Brian Arthur, Increasing Returns and Path Dependence in the Economy (Economics, Cognition, and Society), University of Michigan Press. This isn't a book about Microsoft, but Brian Arthur's theories regarding increasing returns have been influential in the Microsoft debate.

Other Web pages about Microsoft

• Mitch Stone's Boycott Microsoft web page.
• The Windows Refund Center.
• The Daily Wrap and Flow, reporting and documents about the US DOJ/MS trial, plus information about litigation involving Microsoft and Sun, Bristol and Blue Mountain.
• Corporate Watch's One World Operating System page on Microsoft.
• Mother Jones's page on Microstuff.
• Hans Reiser is a software developer suing Microsoft. This is his Microsoft Tying Legal Strategies Map
• November 20, 1997, Brian Connolly's guide to antimicrosoft web sites, Gates Crashers: Bashing Bill & Badmouthing Microsoft from Intellectualcaptial.com
• The Secret Diary of Bill Gates.
• Audrie Krause's NetAction home page, which has a number of Microsoft articles.
• From the fans of Ayn Rand is the Committee for the Moral Defense of Microsoft.

Essential Information's Appraising Microsoft Conference.

• Essential Information's Appraising Microsoft's Global Strategy Conference.
• December 15, 1997, John Richard, letter to Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Robert J. Herbold, responding to Mr. Herbold's November 13, 1997 letter to Ralph Nader, regarding Essential Information's Appraising Microsoft Conference.

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