![]() The tale he tells has much to show us about the computer industry, and about our times. It was brave of Heilemann to rush into print with a book during the interregnum between the June ruling and the appeal - which could change everything - but he's performed a service in doing so. ![]() Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia will hear arguments on Feb. Jackson knew an appeal was coming, and the U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson found that Microsoft was indeed a monopoly, and last June 7 ordered it broken in two. Justice Department and Microsoft, including two interviews with Gates himself, and it shows. He had amazing access to the principal figures in the recent court battle between the U.S. ![]() Heilemann, formerly a never-dull political writer for HotWired and then a staff writer for the New Yorker, walks us through the story admirably. ![]() This surprisingly sober account of the diminishment of Bill Gates and Microsoft ought to be required reading for anyone (probably most of us) who has often tuned out the unending stream of news accounts covering the same territory. ![]()
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