"Microsoft had demonstrated that it will use its prodigious, market power and immense profits to harm any firm that insists on pursuing initiatives that could intensify competition against one of Microsoft's core products."

Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson,

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

"We respectfully disagree with a number of the Court's findings, and believe the American legal system ultimately will affirm that Microsoft's innovations were fair and legal, and have brought tremendous benefits to millions of consumers."

William Henry "Bill" Gates III,

Microsoft CEO