FC: As Microsoft-watchers wait for appeals decision, tension mounts

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,44780,00.html
   
   MS Monopoly Vigil Intensifies
   By Declan McCullagh (declan () wired com)
   2:00 a.m. June 26, 2001 PDT
   
   WASHINGTON -- Nearly four months have elapsed since a federal appeals
   court heard arguments in the Microsoft antitrust case, and advocates
   on all sides are starting to sweat.
   
   It's not just the summer heat. A combination of events -- including
   the court's recent announcement of its plans for distributing the
   decision of U.S. v. Microsoft and the announced retirement of the
   chief judge in July -- have led to a kind of nervous anxiety not seen
   since U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson was preparing to
   declare Microsoft a recidivist monopolist.

   Among Microsoft-watchers, the heebie-jeebies become most acute every
   Tuesday and Friday here around 10 a.m. That's when the appeals court
   normally releases opinions, though it recently noted that "usual
   practice may not be followed in this case."

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