For the first time since November 1999, Microsoft has the government on the ropes in its landmark antitrust trial. The strange twist of events comes as the government on Friday prepares to file its principal brief in Microsoft's antitrust appeal. Legal experts predict the filing will offer little new material. "The surprise would be if there were any surprises," said Emmett Stanton, an antitrust attorney with Fenwick & West in Palo Alto, Calif. But antitrust lawyers and academics agree the government's position is greatly weakened, if for no other reason than out-of-courtroom comments made by the trial judge, U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson.
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