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...another section of the brief, Lessig took Microsoft and the Justice Department to task for not recognizing that antitrust law is "unsettled" on the question of tying software packages...
...Microsoft has argued that Internet Explorer is so tightly integrated into Windows that the two are not separate products. The close relationship between the Internet and operating system products allows consumers to browse files on their computers' hard drives as easily as they view Web pages...
...firm has also argued that computer programmers can more easily develop programs that need to communicate with Internet Explorer and Windows because Microsoft provides ready-made computer code...
...went on to write that a recent court ruling closely related to the current case--a ruling that supported Microsoft's interpretation of the facts--might not apply to the present situation...
Although the issues are similar, that decision technically was made in a different case--one where the Justice Department accused Microsoft of violating a "consent decree," an agreement with the federal government not to bundle Internet Explorer and Windows...