Everyone’s favorite demon, Bill Gates, continues to get his proverbial ass kicked by the U.S. Department of Justice this week after his monopolistic company Microsoft (as if you didn’t already know) got well and truly beaten up last week in America’s centre stage of court rooms.

Last week it was the turn of Intel (the soon to be subject of another anti trust battle) to tell tails on the classroom bully, Microsoft. They reeled out reports of a multimedia technology they were forced to shelve after Microsoft had effectively threatened to end their ‘friendship’ if Intel continued to develop the technology.

The week before we had heard similar claims of ‘playground bullying’ from Apple. They (Apple) alleged Microsoft had deliberately written code to make Apple’s QuickTime multimedia technology appear to not work properly on Windows machines. While Netscape alleged that Microsoft made it impossible for users of Internet Explorer 3 to download Netscape 4. All of which Microsoft deny.

The fact remains though, that Bill Gates is… [Click here to continue reading this article at ‘Meanwhile’]