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May 18, 1998, the Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.

Janet Reno walks calmly on stage.

The room is packed with reporters.

Reno's five years into her position as the nation's first female attorney general, and

projects a humorless, I mean business, air.

She's wearing large glasses that rest halfway down her cheeks, a cream-colored skirt suit

adorned with pearls, and has a short, boyish haircut.

She stands in front of a blue curtain backdrop at a brown podium, and speaks in a near monotone.

The Justice Department has charged Microsoft with engaging and anti-competitive and exclusionary

practices designed to maintain its monopoly in personal computer operating systems, and

attempting to extend that monopoly to internet browser software.

The Department alleges in its complaint that Microsoft has engaged in a series of anti-competitive

practices.

The government is going to war with where the nation's leading technology firms, and one

of its most cutting-edge businesses.

By the late 90s, Microsoft has gotten the Windows operating system onto 90% of the nation's

personal computers, a monopoly Reno plans to disband.

Microsoft's actions have stifled competition in the operating system in browser markets,

but most importantly, it has restricted the choices available for consumers in America

and around the world.

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