It's Over in Iowa for Microsoft -- Redmond Channel Partner

Pender's Blog by Lee Pender, RCPU Editor

It's Over in Iowa for Microsoft

The long, protracted, embarrassing (Jim Allchin saying he's buy a Mac if he didn't work for Microsoft is now part of industry lore) anti-trust trial in Iowa is over for the Redmond legal team. Microsoft settled , but we're not sure for how much.

Who won? Well, that's hard to say, but for a hugely entertaining and completely dead-on read , check out your editor's former colleague, Dan Lyons, and his take in Forbes on the whole mess.

Posted by Lee Pender on February 15, 2007

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