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To: Robert W. Dog who wrote (85)5/13/1998 1:38:00 AM
From: TechnoWiz  Read Replies (1) of 364
 
To All: FYI

Tuesday May 12, 6:19 pm Eastern Time

Appeals court sides with Microsoft on Windows 98,

WASHINGTON, May 12 (Reuters) - A U.S. Court of Appeals sided with Microsoft Corp. (MSFT - news). on Tuesday by stopping a 1997 lower court decision from interfering with the release of Windows 98.

The appellate court order -- which will have no effect on any new antitrust case that states or the
Justice Department may file -- said the government had a ''very weak'' chance of winning a permanent injunction against Windows 98 under the old U.S. District Court case from last year.

The Justice Department alleged last year that Microsoft had violated a 1995 consent decree, which was supposed to improve competition in the software industry.

On Dec. 11, 1997, U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson issued a preliminary injunction
barring Microsoft from bundling its Internet web browser with its Windows 95 operating system
or ''successor versions,'' which would include Windows 98.

Microsoft appealed that preliminary injunction to the higher court in December, but only talked
about problems with Windows 95. Then, earlier this month, the company asked the appeals court
to order that the Dec. 11 decision should not apply to Windows 98. In Tuesday's decision, the
court agreed.

''Whatever the United States' chances of winning permanent injunctive relief with respect to
Windows 95 in the proceeding currently in the district court, they appear very weak with respect
to Windows 98,'' the order from a three-judge panel said.
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