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To: cAPSLOCK who wrote (6113)	12/11/1997 7:20:00 PM
From: E_K_S	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

To All: Split decision for Microsoft Computers makers won't have to bundle; contempt charge rejected December 11, 1997: 7:14 p.m. ET NEW YORK (CNNfn) - Microsoft Corp. Thursday was ordered to stop requiring computer makers to bundle its Internet Explorer Web browser as a condition to include the Windows 95 operating system on their computers. However, U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson Thursday rejected a civil contempt charge brought by the Justice Department which was seeking a fine of $1 million a day be levied against the company. Jackson also ordered that a special judicial officer be appointed to consider the facts and legal precedents that applied to the case. Justice Department officials said they were reviewing the ruling and would formally discuss it at a news conference later Thursday. Microsoft officials were not immediately available to comment. The U.S. Justice Department had asked the court to hold Microsoft in contempt for alleged anti-competitive behavior in the Internet browser market. The agency's antitrust division charged the world's largest software company violated a 1995 consent decree by trying to use its leverage to require PC manufacturers to license and distribute Microsoft's Internet browser, Internet Explorer along with the company's new operating system Windows 95. ====================================================================== This should be a positive for Sun tomorrow. The beef with Sun and Microsoft regarding Java compliance can be addressed specifically to the Browser software not Browser and Win95 OS. The "Activator" fix for less than pure Java applications now provides a solution for "true" JAVA suuport. The end-user truly now has the option for an open system platform. EKS