Well, it finally happened: Microsoft's game of "hardball" has resulted in a lawsuit from the Justice Department and from the attorneys general of 20 states. Assuming that there's no last-minute out-of-court settlement (which briefly appeared to be happening last weekend), this is a case that could drag on for years. And, conceivably, it could have as large an impact as the anti-trust lawsuit against IBM in the 1960s and against AT&T in the 1980s.
Advisor
The Microsoft Lawsuit
By Ed Yourdon
Posted May 19, 1998 | Leadership | Amplify | Amplify | Amplify | Amplify
About The Author
Ed Yourdon was cofounder, with Karen Coburn, of Cutter Consortium. Ed served as Fellow of the Cutter Business Technology Council, and Founding Editor and Editor Emeritus of the Cutter IT Journal. He chaired Cutter's Summit for many years. Mr. Yourdon is widely known as the lead developer of the structured analysis/design methods of the 1970s. He was a codeveloper of the Yourdon/Whitehead method of object-oriented (OO) analysis/design and the… Read More
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