Tall, reserved and invariably polite, Neukom was the chief architect behind Microsoft's courtroom defense against the government's antitrust charges. Earlier this week, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson threw the book at Microsoft, accepting the government's proposal to break the software maker in two. Neukom, ever the rabid baseball fan, cautioned observers to remember the game is not over until the final out. In an interview with ZDNet News executive news editor Charles Cooper, he said a lot can change between now and then. You're a big baseball fan and you've used the analogy that we're now still in early innings.
Nobody can have durably high market share in technology when there are no capital barriers to entry.
The beauty of the judicial process is that every defendant has the right to review at the appellate court and that it will get done in a clearheaded level. Most Sherman Act cases are tried by judges because of the complexity of the case and the related economics. Essentially, they were running away from written evidence. There is nothing that we didn't want in evidence that's not on the record. We were very particular about picking Microsoft people or outside people who had the best testimonial knowledge of the facts in this case.