Microsoft Returns to Court With Nine States Still Opposed

The antitrust case against Microsoft may seem like old news, but don't write off the case just yet.

More legal risk may creep back into the company's stock during a month-long series of meetings that resumes Wednesday. Nine states that don't agree with the settlement could still force some significant changes.

"Investors have moved beyond the trial, sort of assumed this will end and nothing will happen and the settlement is a nonmaterial event," said Erik Olbeter, an analyst with Schwab Capital Markets Washington Research Group. "There is probably a lot more risk here than investors want to 'fess up to." ...