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Appeals court reverses ruling to dismantle Microsoft.
Byline: Frank James
WASHINGTON_Ruling in the Justice Department's historic antitrust case against Microsoft Corp., a federal appeals court Thursday unanimously agreed that the software giant illegally protected its computer-industry monopoly, but reversed an order to dismantle the company.
While the complex, 125-page opinion overturned a lower court's order to split up Microsoft as a way of remedying its harmful impact on the software industry, it left a future breakup of the company as a possibility. The appellate court returned the case to the district court to determine Microsoft's ultimate fate.
The decision by the seven members of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia lambasted U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, who originally tried the case, for improperly discussing the case with journalists during the trial.
The appellate judges said they partly based their decision to overrule his breakup order on those discussions as well as his "numerous offensive comments about Microsoft officials in public statements outside the courtroom," which…
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