“In what the Wall Street Journal termed a “surprise setback” for
the Department of Justice, U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield
Jackson has ordered that any immediate remedies against Microsoft
(MSFT) be stayed pending the appeal process. (He ordered those same
remedies only two weeks ago.) Outlets agreed that this was good
news for Microsoft, no matter how furiously DOJ spokeslawyers tried
to spin.”
“The New York Times noted, “None of the steps Jackson ordered in
his remedy ruling may go into effect for a year or longer, if they
are upheld at all.” (The story appeared on nytimes.com on the same
page as a large ad for Microsoft Project 2000.) Along with the
Journal, the Times led with the remedy delay. MSNBC, the San Jose
Mercury News and CNET emphasized the leapfrog to the Supreme Court;
ZDNet’s angle was that all sides got a bit of what they wanted, and
it pointed out that the top justices will decide whether it
will take the case by Oct. 2. So we may have more than three more
months of this before anything actually happens.”