US Justice Dept. probes MS Corel deal

In what may signal the Bush administration's attitude toward ongoing Microsoft Corp. antitrust litigation, the Department of Justice has opened yet another investigation. Microsoft's $135 million investment in Corel Corp. has concerned investigators who fear that part ownership of Corel may hurt competition in office software where MS Office has 90 percent of the market. Additionally, Corel announced it would stop making office software for Microsoft's open-source OS rival Linux shortly after the investment.

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