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Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, visiting a Miami high school Monday to donate $1.1 million worth of computers and software, reminisced about his own student days, when computers were expensive, scarce and "just our hobby." "I was very lucky. I got in when nobody knew anything, and I had so much time just to read about it and play with it," Gates told computer students at Booker T. Washington High School.

Members of Congress are pressing the Bush administration to settle the 4-year-old antitrust case against Microsoft, following Thursday's federal appeals court decision reversing the breakup of the software titan.
"Let's hope that we can put this lawsuit behind us," said House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill. House minority leader Dick Gephardt, D-Mo., also hoped the ruling "will cause the parties, and the court, to go back and see if they can come up with an appropriate, sensible agreement."
"The president believes people should work hard to enter into agreements, and the president believes there's too much litigation in our society generally speaking," White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer said.

WASHINGTON--Microsoft founder Bill Gates said Friday he was "very open" to reaching a settlement in the case against the computer giant after an appeals court overturned an order to split up the company.
In interviews with morning television shows to comment on Thursday's court ruling, Gates said extensive litigation was not good for either side in the case.
"Microsoft, as we have been throughout the case, is very open to the idea of settlement. We don't think extensive litigation and the resources that involves are really good for anyone. We will see if that's a possibility," Gates told ABC's "Good Morning America".

As both sides declared victory after Thursday's appellate court ruling, one clear loser emerged in the landmark antitrust case against Microsoft: Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit removed Jackson from the case, nullifying his order last year to break up the software giant. The move could pave the way for renewed settlement negotiations. Aside from any immediate impact on the case, however, the court's statements were an unusually harsh rebuke of a sitting federal judge. In 20 pages saved for the end of their opinion Thursday, the appellate judges took Jackson to task for comments made outside the courtroom in a rare show of dispute within the ranks of a painstakingly restrained federal judiciary in Washington

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Microsoft's Bill Gates comments on the court's findings in an interview on CNBC.

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The long awaited opinion from the U.S. Court of Appeals regarding the Microsoft antitrust case was finally handed down on Thursday, with the Court reversing the decision to breakup the software giant. But the decision wasn't a clear victory for Microsoft: The Court upheld the conclusion that Microsoft owns a monopoly in operating systems and that it broke the law in an attempt to maintain and extend that monopoly. Given the even split, both the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Microsoft declared that the Court's decision was a victory.