Microsoft Corporation, the target of many an antitrust arrow, has its fingers in new technologies. Having achieved dominance in software for personal computers, it now views its software as a base from which to conquer the Internet and telecommunication, not to mention entertainment. Indeed, Microsoft's competitive strategy apparently is to look for synergy in heretofore distinct fields of technology. If it has its corporate way, eventually our home and business computers will give us easy and thorough access to all the world's flow of information -- business, news, gossip, and entertainment -- all through the miracle of software, and mostly through software developed and marketed by Microsoft. As this synergy unfolds, Microsoft will work in vertical cooperation and horizontal competition with such industrial behemoths as the major movie studios, AT&T, and the “Baby Bells,” as well as with the giants of cable television and cellular and satellite consortia yet to be conceived. Can our legal system, which took nearly fifteen years to get its arms around the difference between source code and object code, grasp the coming whirlwind of technological development and business combination without analogy? I doubt it.