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A look back at the main business headlines of 1999. The last 12 months have seen Microsoft being prosecuted by the US government for being an anti-competitive monopolist, why Brazil's currency crisis didn't turn out to be the disaster everyone feared, and how high-tech shares soared as some on Wall Street argued the stock market boom would keep going for another decade.

(Picture: The launch of Microsoft's Office 2000 in New Delhi in June 1999. Credit: Getty Images)