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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly?
MSFT 507.49-0.6%Nov 17 3:59 PM EST

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To: t2 who wrote (22783)5/17/1999 5:32:00 PM
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Jackson Suggestion Spawns Scenarios For Ending of Microsoft Antitrust Case
By JOHN R. WILKE
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

WASHINGTON -- On March 31, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson called the lawyers in the Microsoft Corp. antitrust trial into his chambers in the federal courthouse here. Just a month earlier, in a similar meeting, he had gently nudged both sides to find a way to settle the case. This time, with no settlement in sight, he was suggesting one way to get there.

With the eight lawyers -- two or three each from Microsoft, the Justice Department and the states suing the company -- gathered around his desk, the judge asked: Why not just let personal-computer makers and consumers pick the software they want on new machines?

Judge Jackson offered the idea as "something you might want to consider,"
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