We'll probably have more testimony ... with a result (on remedies) somewhere in mid-summer.

206

I think the intriguing thing in the afternoon was the chief judge led the charge [against the government's case] on some of these issues.

171

The public face was how frightful, but the internal sense of the company was how delightful. There were a number of ambitious managers in charge of the subsidiaries who thought they could manage the company better than the folks at 26 Broadway.

166

Microsoft wants to postpone as long as possible the creation of a document that describes how the company could be broken up.

141

Each side will be describing a different planet.

121

Today's action makes it likely that during the period that the Supreme Court is considering the case, there will likely be a suspension of the interim remedies.

116

I do think a restructuring of Microsoft would be more complex. That could be a new challenge.

110

This is the first time going back to 1890 in which the key assets of the company to be broken up consist of human beings and ideas. Who can predict what these people will do, and how effective the entities will be?

108

Nothing that had real substantive punch in the government's original proposal was watered down. The government's filing today is designed to give Microsoft the sense that the process in the remedy phase was carried out correctly, and it provides the judge with ammunition that he could use as a rationale for the measures contained in his final ruling.

97