So much for the buzz. After both sides in the Microsoft antitrust case spent 48 hours in frenzied preparation for a decision, complete with teleconferences and blast email to journalists, the result was a stunning anticlimax. Wired News delivered to your inbox or hand-held device. Sponsored by .
Nobody knows, or at least nobody who really knows is going to be talking.
Jackson said he would give both sides two hours notice. The US Government Printing Office has set up a special Web site for the brief. When there's no news, even the lack of it seems to become newsworthy. Microsoft on Monday will become part of the Dow Jones industrial average, and an apparent courtroom loss at this stage would send the Dow skittering downwards. However, we don't believe those developments, if they occurred, when they occurred, would cause a material change to operating results, which we believe, mostly impacts the stock.