WHAT NEXT IN THE MICROSOFT SUIT (0) . It wants to find the appropriate punishment following a judge’’s ruling that Microsoft is a monopoly, including the possible breakup of the software company. "We are looking at the range of sanctions we’’re talking to people in the industry, people who work with Microsoft, people who manufacture computers and we’’re doing an analysis to make sure that we have a remedy that will promote competition, assure innovation and promote consumer choice, " he said. He thought the judge was quite clear that innovation has been impaired and he had heard all the evidence. Meanwhile, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said in a letter published today that the software maker is committed to "a fair and responsible" resolution of the anti-trust trial. (8). "We’’ve been here before in a first lawsuit, " he said. "And eventually the courts came out on the side of the consumer, saying that all companies should have the ability to innovate their products and take their chances in the marketplace." (9). "As this case moves toward resolution, Microsoft’’s 30, 000 employees are focused on creating the next generation of products that will deliver the benefits of the Information Age, anytime, anywhere and on any device, " Gates wrote. (10). On Friday, Jackson took Microsoft to task for numerous instances of anti-competitive behavior, including its dealings with America Online over the latter’’s browser choices, its contracts with PC makers, which forced them to feature prominently the Internet Explorer Web browser instead of Netscape’’s competing product. (11). The judge noted that Microsoft’’s own studies confirmed that Microsoft could have charged only $49 per Windows upgrade and still remained profitable, and that it had enough power within the market to charge $89. (12). It is through high "barriers to entry", in other words, by making it more costly to create competing software.

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