Microsoft wants to postpone as long as possible the creation of a document that describes how the company could be broken up.

The case is important because it will define the rules of the game for the coming decades, ... The Microsoft case will define the rules for the new information economy.

The more time Microsoft has, it makes it harder [for the government] to establish a remedy that would limit Microsoft's flexibility in selling Windows 98, ... Each month that goes by makes it harder to obtain effective relief.

I think in many ways, Microsoft has planted some seeds of doubt about the government's hypotheses,

I can't comprehend how bumpy the whole trail of witnesses have been for Microsoft. I'm absolutely dumbfounded.

Microsoft succeeded in taking the initiative on the appeal, ... I don't think the government really thought through all of the possible scenarios, and Microsoft ended up outmaneuvering them.