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To: DiViT who wrote (56389)	3/1/2001 1:00:32 PM
From: brian z	Respond to of 74651

A Good Day in Court for Microsoft By Cade Metz February 28, 2001 Microsoft went back to court Monday morning in the nation's capital, seeking to overturn last year's ruling that the company had violated antitrust laws. In an open session of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, a seven-judge panel heard oral arguments over the past two days and heavily questioned both Microsoft and government attorneys. The panel will eventually rule on whether the software giant used illegal means to maintain a monopoly in the operating system market and whether it should be broken into two companies, one that would control the Windows operating systems and another that would hold rights to the software applications. Microsoft attorneys have argued that the company did not constitute a monopoly, citing Apple's Mac OS, Sun Microsystem's Java technology, and Netscape's Navigator Web browser as competing platforms, and claimed that separating Windows from the Internet Explorer Web browser would be "technically complicated." Chief Judge Harry Edwards was occasionally critical of Microsoft's stance, but also found fault with the arguments of government attorneys and with the findings of fact laid out by U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson in June of last year. Of the seven judges, four were appointed by Republican presidents Ronald Reagan or George H. W. Bush and three, including Edwards, by Democrats Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton. Legal experts have said the overall conservative makeup of the panel favors Microsoft.