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7.9.2001

Date:    Fri, 7 Sep 2001 15:54:40 -0700

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STATEMENT ON MICROSOFT ANTITRUST LAWSUIT BY CALIFORNIA ATTORNEY GENERAL BILL 
LOCKYER AND NEW YORK ATTORNEY GENERAL ELIOT SPITZER

The following statement was issued by Attorney General Bill Lockyer of 
California and Attorney General Eliot Spitzer of New York regarding the 
antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft:
                                        	
On June 28th of this year, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals 
unanimously held that Microsoft engaged in unlawful monopolization.  The 
injury to the public from Microsoft's unlawful acts is on-going, and, as a 
result, there is an urgent need for the courts to order relief that protects 
the public.

The decision by the states involved in the Microsoft case and by the U.S. 
Department of Justice not to pursue a break-up of Microsoft as a remedy is 
intended to enable the courts promptly to put into place strong and effective 
relief that will promote competition and consumer choice in the marketplace.

The dynamic quality of the computer industry necessarily means that part of 
the remedy must be forward-looking. Therefore, the states of New York and 
California will insist that Windows XP * Microsoft's latest version of its 
personal computer operating system scheduled for marketplace release in the 
next few weeks * receive close scrutiny in arriving at a judicially ordered 
remedy. As the U.S. Court of Appeals found, some of the ways that Microsoft 
unlawfully crushed competition from Netscape included bundling Microsoft's 
Internet browser to its Windows operating system, and pressuring industry 
computer makers into refraining from adding Netscape's browser to the 
computers that they sold.  It is imperative that Microsoft not have another 
opportunity to use Windows XP to suppress competition in emerging Internet 
areas.

The states are committed to pressing the trial court for stringent remedies 
that will change the conduct by Microsoft that the courts have found to be 
illegal, and that will provide consumers with the benefits of competition.  We 
look forward to continuing to work with the Department of Justice in the 
proceedings that are about to begin before the trial court, but will, if 
necessary to protect the public, press for remedies that go beyond those 
requested by the Department of Justice.

TINA