orrison & Foerster. Miller was to head up litigation against Microsoft. What will come of the lawsuit? If Microsoft agrees to the next settlement, it will "level the playing field"(Rohm 94) or they could end up the next AT&T. It is up to those in Washington and at Microsoft. If Microsoft looses, "instead of just DOS with its huge share of the market, if you've got three or four operating systems each having 25 or 30 percent of the market, you're going to provide a lot more incentive for those people to predisclose or disclose interface operations to everybody"(Rohm 94) said a lawyer for the case. The operating system that works with all applications and other operating systems wins. That is IBM and Apple's Taligent and OS/2's strategy.Right now Bill Gates is building a multi million dollar water front home outside of Seattle, equipped with all the technological luxuries that a few years ago only science fiction writers could dream up, for he and his wife, Melinda French. He has a 2.5 million dollar book deal that is selling now(Lyall 20). What is in Gates future? He loves his work at Microsoft and continues to stay involved with running the company. He has gotten with Craig McCaw and announced plans to launch a 9 billion dollar satellite-communications by 2001. He is also working with Sega, Time Warner and TCI just to name a few. As for his monopolistic image in computer circles, only time will tell....
