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Article: Prescriptions for Curbing Microsoft Prove Elusive.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
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- April 3, 2000
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Apr. 3--WASHINGTON--As Microsoft Corp. and prosecutors tried to negotiate an antitrust settlement, they bogged down over how to craft a loophole-free agreement that gave the famously aggressive software maker no room to wriggle out of its promised changes in behavior, sources said yesterday.
Now, the same problem will likely face Federal District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, who is presiding over the case.
With settlement talks collapsing on Saturday, Jackson is expected to issue his verdict this week on whether Microsoft broke the nation's antitrust laws. All indications are that he will rule that Microsoft did violate the law, and that the trial ...