With the ruling Nov. 1 upholding nearly all of Microsoft's settlement with the Justice Department, the company seems to have won its antitrust wars. But like many wars, even victory has been costly. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly embraced the settlement agreement the company reached a year ago with the federal government and dismissed for the most part objections launched by nine states. This result is, for the company, much preferred to that ordered in June 2000 by another district judge that the company be broken up as a result of its violation of antitrust laws.
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