Microsoft could say they didn't have sufficient time to respond, as their grounds for appeal. Lande said he expects Jackson to issue his ruling by July or August, based on the timetable outlined Wednesday. He won't take everything the government's going to file. Specifically, he asked the two sides to respond to a quote attributed to Microsoft President Steve Ballmer, who claimed that 40 percent of the functionality of the Windows 2000 desktop is useless without the Windows 2000 server. Holley then noted that neither Windows 2000 nor its predecessor NT 4.0 were part of the case.
Companies have the right to develop their products so they work well together.
While Boies was in favor of the open-sourcing IE possibility, Warden, expectedly, was not. Before the judge abruptly terminated the remedy hearing, Holley attempted to specify the types of information that Microsoft had hoped to seek via its offer of proof. He began itemizing some of the witnesses that Microsoft had hoped to call, who would have addressed issues such as the severity of the adverse effects of a breakup on the company and consumers. The Borg Cry all you want, Microsoft. Ok break Microsoft up.