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World War 3.0

Disciplines:
journalism
legal history
law/antitrust

Summary

Ken Auletta's 2001 account of the US government's antitrust case against Microsoft — covering the trial, the lawyers, the government strategy, and Bill Gates's famous deposition — providing the definitive narrative of the most important antitrust case in technology history.

Core Contribution

Provides the most complete narrative of the Microsoft antitrust trial — the courtroom drama, the deposition theatrics, the legal strategy — and contextualizes the case as a conflict between government and a new kind of platform monopoly that regulators were unprepared for.

Historical Influences

Ken Auletta

Intellectual Lineage

Antitrust Legal HistoryTechnology Journalism

Allied Works

Hard Drive GatesThe Innovator's Dilemma

Contemporaries & Peers

Hard Drive The Road Ahead

Minds Influenced

No recorded minds influenced.

Intellectual Posterity

Microsoft antitrust case narrative

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