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September 18, 2003

Why the Richest Company on Earth Feels it Needs to Cheat

Stupid Microsoft Tricks
Why the Richest Company on Earth Feels it Needs to Cheat

By Robert X. Cringely

I had no idea when I wrote in last week's column about the lawsuit between Burst.com and Microsoft that there would be a public hearing on the case this week in Federal Court in Baltimore. Evidently, nobody else knew it, either, because there is no mention of the event on Google News or anywhere else I looked. This must be a relief to Microsoft, or was until you started reading this column about 20 seconds ago. You see, Microsoft did not come through the hearing very well as whole new levels of anti-competitive behavior were claimed by Burst AND ACKNOWLEDGED BY MICROSOFT -- levels that will likely haunt Redmond in many legal cases to come.

This was, to my knowledge, the first public hearing in the case. Anyone off the street could walk into the courtroom and watch the fun. That also means everything that took place in the hearing is now a part of public record and will remain so no matter what happens with the rest of the case. To even allow this hearing to take place appears to have been a terrible blunder on Microsoft's part. Or maybe it was just one in a long line of calculated risks. From the outside looking in, the risk appears to have not been worth it, but only Microsoft can know for sure.

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