The Daily Interview: What's Next for U.S. vs. Microsoft

Tom Campbell has a number of perspectives on the Microsoft (MSFT Quote) antitrust action: He teaches it as a professor of antitrust law at Stanford Law School and for most of the '90s was a Republican U.S. congressman representing Silicon Valley, where many of his corporate constituents were the most vocal supporters of the antitrust move. He also worked as an antitrust lawyer in Washington, where he directed the Bureau of Competition at the Federal Trade Commission in the early '80s.

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TSC: What's the likely outcome of the appeal?

Tom Campbell: Reversal, remand [send back to a lower court] for consideration of remedy seems to be most likely. I doubt they would reverse outright. I think that the question will be, given the nature of the industry today, as of the day of entering the decree, does the breakup make sense? ...