Microsoft Blasts Feds' Assertions In New Filing

Microsoft Corp. continued to pick apart the Justice Department's argument in favor of breaking up the software giant today in yet another filing in the mounting war of briefs between the two combatants.

"The government has already admitted that the breakup of Microsoft would be 'dangerous to the economy's welfare' and 'against the public interest,'" Microsoft attorneys wrote in today's filing. Today's brief is Microsoft's official response to last week's Justice Department's reply brief, which attacked Microsoft's claim that it should be allowed to remain intact.

The Justice Department would not comment about Microsoft's latest filing.

Microsoft's latest filing is available online at http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/trial/may00/05-22reply.asp.

All of the Justice Department's filings in the case can be found at http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/ms_index.htm.

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