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Thursday, April 27, 2000, updated at 16:08(GMT+8)
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Gates Confident of Microsoft's Survival

Microsoft Corp Chairman Bill Gates said on Tuesday he did not think a federal judge's ruling that Microsoft violated US antitrust laws, would lead to a break-up of his software company.

Gates made the comment to BBC television's 24-hour news programme after District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson on Monday found that the Redmond, Washington-based firm broke the law by abusing its monopoly power in personal computer operating systems, doing "violence to the competitive process."

"I don't think any kind of extreme remedy such as a breakup is at all consistent with what the court put foward," Gates told the BBC.

He said the matter was subject to an appeal and added he was confident Microsoft would prevail. "Common sense stands on our side," he said.

US government officials were equally confident they will prevail if the case goes to appeal and welcomed Jackson's ruling. "Microsoft has been held accountable for its illegal conduct by a court of law," Attorney General Janet Reno told a news conference on Monday.








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Microsoft Corp Chairman Bill Gates said on Tuesday he did not think a federal judge's ruling that Microsoft violated US antitrust laws, would lead to a break-up of his software company.

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