Office currently accounts for more than 40% of Microsoft's total revenue and a substantial part of its profits. Microsoft has two other major divisions: the platform group, which covers the Windows operating system; and the smaller Internet unit which produces Internet Explorer and other software.
Breaking Windows: Will They Take Away Microsoft Office?
Federal trustbusters are favoring a forced spinoff of Microsoft's
Office software division as the best way to quash Microsoft's
monopoly in the computer industry, according to a report today
in the Wall Street Journal. The Justice Department and 19
states have been analyzing several different proposals since
Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ruled against Microsoft earlier
this month.