It looks like the judge in the DOJ vs. MS case won't be snowballed,
whatever the outcome. NEWS.COM reports

        "In comments that may address the judge's degree of PC-savvy,
         [Judge] Jackson remarked today that he had been able to
         uninstall IE in 90 seconds...."

This is in stark contrast to MS's announced claims of having to ship
either a two year old version of Windows 95 (which had no IE functionality)
or shipping the current version but with the IE code ripped out (resulting
in an inoperable OS).

There are a couple more deadlines, culminating in a hearing January 13th
on the contempt of court allegation.

The (brief) article is at
        <http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,17534,00.html>

--Glenn Cole
  Software al dente, Inc.
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