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Yahoo!/AP: Feds Stop Seeking Microsoft Breakup

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 6, 2001

“The Bush administration, reversing the Clinton White
House legal strategy against Microsoft, told the software
manufacturer Thursday it no longer seeks to have the company broken
up.

The department also said it will not pursue the bundling issues
in its protracted antitrust suit against the software giant.

The agency is taking these steps to obtain “prompt, effective
and certain relief for consumers,” it said in a press
release.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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