The betting was that during the Bush Administration, Microsoft's antitrust problems would go away. It may happen, but the case is unlikely to be sidetracked in the short term. Later, though, there will be room for the government to retreat from the case and especially from the breakup ordered by District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson. While neither President Bush nor new Attorney General John Ashcroft have expressed views about Microsoft, some believe the government will back away unless it wins a total victory in the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
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