Appeals Court Ruling for Microsoft Sets Up Likely Settlement

On first reading, it looks like the U.S. Court of Appeals gave Microsoft (MSFT Quote) everything it needed ... if not everything it wanted.

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The two key, explicit, parts of the court's ruling in its review of U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's decision in the Justice Department antitrust action against Microsoft, are that the company, despite acting as a monopoly, should not be broken up, and that in the rehearing mandated by the appeals court, Judge Jackson should not preside. ...