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Article: Justice Department won't pursue breaking up Microsoft.(The Dallas Morning News)
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- September 6, 2001
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WASHINGTON _ The Justice Department signaled its desire to quickly resolve the antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft Corp. on Thursday by dropping threats to dismember the company and to retry other aspects of its case.
Some analysts saw the unusual public announcement as a settlement offer from the Bush administration and the 18 remaining states that joined with the federal government in 1998 to sue Microsoft. The states quickly issued a joint statement concurring with the Justice Department's move.
"It's an important announcement the department didn't need to make, so to a significant extent it is a signal that they want a settlement," said Nicholas ...