For the second time in a week, Microsoft and the government received an extension in an important court filing. On Friday, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly extended the deadline to 12 p.m. EDT on Friday a joint status report originally due Sept. 14. That deadline has now been extended until Thursday, and a hearing scheduled for Friday will now take place on Sept. 28. Both Microsoft and the Justice Department are apparently grappling with the effects of last week's devastating attacks here and in New York. President Bush ordered Washington evacuated following Tuesday's attack, and the Justice Department increasingly has been focusing resources on manhunt for additional terrorists or those supporting the 19 hijackers. Microsoft's lead counsel, Sullivan Cromwell, last week evacuated its main office near the ruined World Trade Center. The office, along with many others on Wall Street, reopened on Monday. "In light of recent tragic events affecting the nation, the Court has received various requests for extensions of time," Kollar-Kotelly wrote in Monday's order changing the schedule. "Specifically, all of the parties have requested an extension of time for the filing of the Joint Status Report."