Timeline

Below is a timeline of some significant events in the history of Microsoft and other companies in the technology industry.

1960's | 1970's | 1980-1984 | 1985-1989 | 1990-1994 | 1995 | 1996-1999 | 2000's

2000's

Time Period	Description
January 10, 2000	AOL merges with Time Warner in stock-swap deal valued at $350 billion Microsoft reaches out-of-court settlement of Caldera antitrust lawsuit
January 13, 2000	Steve Ballmer, president of Microsoft, receives CEO title as well. Bill Gates remains Chairman and "Chief Software Architect."
January 24, 2000	Judge Ronald Whyte of the U.S. District Court reinstates preliminary injunction from November 17, 1998 preventing Microsoft from shipping software products containing Java technologies that fail to pass Sun's compatibility test suite.
February, 2000	Class-action lawsuit is filed against AOL alleging its 5.0 service disables other ISP connections when installed
February 17, 2000	Microsoft debuts its Windows 2000 operating system
March 26, 2000	OpenTV buys Spyglass in a stock deal valued at $2.5 billion
April 1, 2000	Judge Richard Posner declares that mediation attempts between the DOJ and 19 state attorneys general and Microsoft have failed
April 3, 2000	Judge Jackson issues his Conclusions of Law finding Microsoft guilty on 3 of 4 counts brought by the government in violation of Section 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act Microsoft stock price falls 15% prior to release of the Conclusions of Law
May 31, 2000	Baan software sold to Invensys (UK) for $708 million
June 7, 2000	Judge Jackson orders that Microsoft be broken in two
July 11, 2000	Microsoft outlines .NET strategy
September 14, 2000	Microsoft launches Windows Me consumer operating system
September 26, 2000	Supreme Court remands the case to the appeals court
October 10, 2000	Microsoft launches Exchange 2000 groupware
May 31, 2001	Microsoft ships Office XP
June 28, 2001	U.S. District Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia rejects breakup remedy and remands the case to a lower court
July 12, 2001	Microsoft settles with New Mexico
September 6, 2001	DOJ announces it will not pursue breakup of Microsoft
October 25, 2001	Microsoft releases Windows XP operating system
November 2, 2001	DOJ and Microsoft reach settlement in antitrust suit
November 6, 2001	Nine of 18 states agree to settlement agreement with Microsoft. Remaining nine states continue litigation.
November 15, 2001	Microsoft launches Xbox gaming console