n.
Nickname for the resulting companies should the U.S. government decide to break up Microsoft into smaller units. (Cf. Baby Bells: the companies created after the breakup of AT&T's telephone monopoly.)
Example Citation:
"If Microsoft does not compromise, the Justice Department might be forced to embrace a heavy-handed solution such as regulating Microsoft as a utility (deeming Windows the modern equivalent of railroad terminals) or breaking the company up into 'Baby Bills.'"
—Editorial, "Bill Gates is Wrong," The Los Angeles Times
—Editorial, "Bill Gates is Wrong," The Los Angeles Times
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