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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mick Mørmøny who wrote (65805)	3/7/2002 8:05:37 AM
From: David Howe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Excellent article. Here are a few clips for people like Jonny that insist on living in their own little world and refuse to read more than the headlines. << But her questions mostly involved relatively minor aspects of the settlement, and the fact that she did not ask a single question of any of the lawyers opposed to the deal seemed to suggest that she would ultimately approve it. The deal was reached only after she had ordered the lawyers to engage in mediation. The judge also did not take issue with the views of Philip S. Beck, the Justice Department's lead trial lawyer in the case, that she did not have authority to rewrite the proposed decree and largely had to defer to the department's view that it was in the public interest. >> and << The hearing today was a remarkable turn of events in the long-running Microsoft case, illustrating how sharply alliances have shifted. Today, Microsoft and the Justice Department, which had been fierce courtroom adversaries for years during the Clinton administration, spoke with virtually one voice on most issues. While two years ago Justice Department prosecutors sought to expand their case and embarrass Microsoft at every turn, today the government's top trial lawyer repeatedly described the shortcomings of its case, while Microsoft's lawyers took every opportunity to agree with the views of the administration about most of the legal issues remaining and the proposed settlement. >>