nt and compliance mechanisms.
             Around the time of the settlement, some suggestions started to come about how to deal with Microsoft. Stewart Alsop suggested "that Microsoft be forced to document the API's in Windows, so that other companies could legally clone it. That would still leave Microsoft an eighteen month head start on each release," (Rapacious 3). It was also suggested that the company be broken up. This way, the operating system and the applications would be separated into different companies and the playing field would become more level.
             In late August 1995, U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ended what had become a thirteen-month judicial review by signing the agreement Microsoft and the Justice Department had come to. The review had been elongated by Judge Sporkin's rejection of the deal. The signing, howe
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