oft's argument was that the government was allowing two large corporations to merge but they are punishing Microsoft for simply growing. The Government set out to figure out how it wanted Microsoft to be punished. According to the timeline, on June 7th judge Jackson ordered that Microsoft be broken up. Soon after Microsoft appealed the case to the US Supreme court. The Supreme Court refused to hear the case. Then nearly a year after the break up was ordered a federal appeals court reversed the ruling on the breakup. On September 6th 2001 the US Government announced that it would no longer seek the breakup of Microsoft Corp. and that it wanted to seek a quick resolution to the case. (Wired news) Those are the facts of the case and now you can have a rough idea of what all of the fuss is about.
             Microsoft was the victim of a witch-hunt by the US Government and Microsoft is one of a few companies that have
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