Microsoft under attack on four fronts

27 May 1999

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The US Department of Justice's anti-trust court case against Microsoft restarts on Monday before judge Thomas Penfield Jackson. The software giant is defending itself in four separate court cases: the DoJ's anti-trust suit, the Java licence infringement case brought by Sun Microsystems, charges by Caldera that Microsoft attempted to destroy Dos rival Dr-Dos, and another case brought by Bristol Technologies over source code availability.

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