How Microsoft Got Itself Into Hot Water. You're a professional basketball player. You're whistled for a foul. And that's what you say to the referee. Sure he would.
Referees are human too.
And they don't like players who hurl insults. Microsoft finds itself in exactly that position today, as the U.S. Department of Justice expands its antitrust probe. Click for full story. The DOJ is now looking into Microsoft's attempts to wrest control of Java from Sun Microsystems. It recruits hardware and software people to build great products.