A judge reviewing a proposed settlement of private antitrust suits against Microsoft Corp. on Monday questioned whether the deal might favor the company over Apple Computer Inc. U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz appeared to share concerns raised by Apple that the agreement would flood schools with refurbished personal computers running Microsoft's Window's operating system and other software. ``If in the solution there are structural biases, however good the intention, then that's something that's got to be of concern,'' Motz said. Microsoft and most of the class action attorneys in the case are in favor of a deal that would require the company to spend more than $1 billion to put software and computers into some of the poorest U.S. schools.
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