Microsoft, Government to File Findings of Fact
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WASHINGTON — Microsoft Corp. will say this week that 76 days of testimony in its antitrust trial have proved that consumers enjoy the benefits of vigorous competition between its Web browser and one offered by Netscape.
In its proposed findings of fact, due to be presented to the trial judge Tuesday, the software giant will maintain that it continues to face challenges in a swiftly changing industry, a lawyer working for the company said in an interview.
The Justice Department and 19 states, however, are expected to assert there is ample support in the voluminous testimony and exhibits for their charge that Microsoft holds monopoly power in personal computer operating systems.
The government contends Microsoft used that power to dominate the browser market over Netscape, which was sold to America Online Inc. after the trial started last year.
Federal District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson could wind up with more than 1,000 pages of filings to read.
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