DOJ won't pursue Microsoft breakup
C|Net | at | by Mike
The government on Thursday said that it would not seek to break up Microsoft when a federal judge resumes proceedings in the case. Microsoft, the Justice Department and 18 states are scheduled to meet over the next two weeks with U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly. The Justice Department said in a statement that it would "not seek a break-up of the company into separate operating systems and applications businesses, as previously had been ordered by the court. Instead, the Department will seek an order that is modeled after the interim conduct-related provisions of the Final Judgment previously ordered in the case."