From the Dark Side--Microsoft Loses One, Wins One with U.S. Justice Department

After settling its case with the DoJ's Antitrust Division, which many obervers saw as a big M$ win, Microsoft lost a battle for the DoJ's officially supported word processing software to rival Corel. WordPerfect will continue to be the DoJ standard at $40 per seat or roughly $2+ million nper year. M$ sells $billions worth of Office so its not a really big loss. In addition, DoJ urges its employees to turn away from Netscape and use M$ Internet Explorer. It looks to us like Microsoft is still a winner at the U.S. DoJ. [Dana Baggett]