Nature abhors a vacuum, and the economy abhors uncertainty. In the final analysis, when you're talking about machinery as complex as a global economy, no one can say with any certainty what will happen if you radically reshape a key player such as Microsoft. And that uncertainty makes people nervous. And when people are nervous, they get skittish in a market economy. Like it or not, rapacious business practices or not, Microsoft is a key player in the global economy.
Radical solutions are scary.
Doctors don't conduct brain surgery while bungee jumping and mechanics don't service a car's transmission during the Indy 500. Neither should the government willy-nilly lop off huge chunks of a leading technology company in a volatile world economy. We need more than a rush solution, and a pit-stop overhaul is not the answer. We didn't like that. The Justice Department is telling Microsoft it's serious as a heart attack.