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The article "Making Microsoft Safe for Capitalism" was written in 1999 by James Glieck. This was during the concluding days of the third phase of the
Microsoft anti-trust case filed by the Justice Department. The article reviews Microsoft's business climate, its business strategies, corporate culture, and finally proposes recommendations regarding what the appropriate actions for the Justice Department would be.
Microsoft is a young, fast moving company of 18,000 employees. It is hardly an organization on the scale of previous anti-trust actions taken against AT&T, IBM, or Standard Oil. Microsoft controls monopolies of a very subtle and abstract commodity that are every bit as critical as natural resources or manufacturing. Microsoft controls the architecture and standards for the design and development of almost all software. Some of this control is obvious, but other aspects—the more leveraging aspects—are invisible to the average consumer. At the time of this......

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