A decade ago, Silicon Valley was toasting the misfortune of Microsoft. "I'm sure there are Champagne corks being popped all over the valley," Gary Rivlin, author of "The Plot to Get Bill Gates," told The Chronicle on Nov. 5, 1999. Images View Larger Images That was the day U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson declared the software giant a monopoly that had hobbled innovation and harmed consumers. The damning findings in the landmark suit convinced many that the company was about to become...
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