Date: June 29, 2001

Microsoft and AOL Discuss Linking Products
By JOHN MARKOFF
Microsoft and America Online are negotiating a range of licensing and legal issues so contentious that the two sides disagreed whether they were even still talking.
Date: June 4, 2001

Microsoft Introduces Office XP
By JOHN MARKOFF
Microsoft will introduce a new version of its Office program that is the most Internet-connected product yet from the company.
Date: May 31, 2001

Bush Is Putting Team in Place for a Full-Bore Assault on Regulation
By STEPHEN LABATON
The Bush administration has begun to make good on its commitment of broad deregulation, promoting a policy transformation long sought by the business community.
Date: May 23, 2001

Microsoft Relies Again on an Inner Circle
By JOHN MARKOFF
A brain trust for Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has never been more important. Microsoft's dominance is under constant threat of being undermined.
Date: March 25, 2001

EDITORIAL
Microsoft Fights Back
The oral arguments in this week's Microsoft trial did little to undermine the soundness of Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's central finding that Microsoft violated the nation's antitrust laws.
Date: March 1, 2001

Judges Voice Doubt on Order Last Year to Split Microsoft
By STEPHEN LABATON
The government suffered a second difficult day in its antitrust case when a federal appeals court cast doubt about a judge's order last year.
ï Excerpts From Second Day of Arguments in Appeal of the Antitrust Case
Date: February 28, 2001

Judges Scrutinize Ruling
By STEPHEN LABATON
Federal appeals judges sharply questioned the decision that found that Microsoft had repeatedly violated antitrust law. The questioning suggested that many elements of the decision were vulnerable to reversal.
Date: February 27, 2001

Appeal Seems to Find Sympathetic Ears Among Judges
By STEPHEN LABATON
Judges on a federal appeals court pelted lawyers representing the Justice Department and 19 states with skeptical questions about the decision last year's decision
Date: February 26, 2001

High-Stakes Appeal Could Be Last Court Date for Microsoft
By STEPHEN LABATON
Lawyers began two days of oral arguments before seven appeals judges in a case of historic dimensions.
Date: February 26, 2001

SUNDAY BOOK REVIEW
Defending Too Much, Too Often
By ADAM LIPTAK
Two books on the antitrust case "World War 3.0," by Ken Auletta, and "Pride Before the Fall," by John Heilemann show Microsoft trying to defend everything all at once.
Date: February 4, 2001


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Microsoft Steps Up Attack on Judge
By JOHN SCHWARTZ
Microsoft stepped up its attack on Thomas Penfield Jackson, saying that recently published interviews "raised profound doubts about his impartiality."
Date: January 30, 2001


Clinton Team in Final Plea
By JOEL BRINKLEY
Submitting its final filing in its antitrust case against Microsoft, the Clinton administration asked an appeals court to uphold the order to split the company in two.
Date: January 13, 2001


New Focus on Consumer Electronics
By JOHN MARKOFF
Bill Gates, who now calls himself chief software architect, is preparing to introduce Microsoft´s X-Box video game system, its first foray into the high-stakes, high-risk consumer electronics business.
Date: January 05, 2001


Old-Line Giant Works to Shape Post-PC World
By JOHN MARKOFF
Last summer, Microsoft decided to wager that the future of the operating system will be in a cloud of Internet-connected computers spread around the globe. The shift is a telling one.
Date: January 01, 2001