The Other Half of the Microsoft Decision

Splitting Microsoft may seem almost biblical in its simplicity. But in adopting the plan submitted by trustbusters, Judge Jackson is also imposing a devilish set of details that would force Microsoft — whole or in parts — to change the way it does business.

For all the attention to the so-called "structural" remedy of splitting the company, Judge Jackson has also ordered "conduct" remedies that would drastically change the PC business.

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RAY KELLY, New York City Police Commissioner, on the arrest of a New Jersey man in one of the nation's most baffling missing-children cases, the disappearance more than three decades ago of 6-year-old Etan Patz.
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