The Justice Department set out to prove Wednesday that its antitrust settlement with Microsoft is a bird in the hand and better than what it reasonably could have expected if it had gone back to court to seek tougher penalties. Philip Beck, speaking for the government, told U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly that a federal appeals court radically narrowed the scope of Microsoft's wrongdoing, making it difficult for the government to seek stronger penalties against the software giant.
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