Peter Kaplan
WASHINGTON: Two of the biggest states party to the government's antitrust
case against Microsoft Corp. warned on Friday they might pursue their own
sanctions against the software giant if they conclude the US Justice Department
is going too easy on the company.
A day after government attorneys said they had dropped the idea of pushing to
break up Microsoft, New York Attorney General Elliot Spitzer and California
Attorney General Bill Lockyer insisted that the government take a close look at
Microsoft's new Windows XP operating system before proposing a new remedy to
rein in the company.
Spitzer and Lockyer, among the most outspoken of