Microsoft , Justice Dept to meet
Yahoo | at | by Mike
Microsoft Corp, the Justice Department and state officials will meet this week in a first step toward settlement negotiations in the three-year-old antitrust lawsuit, the Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition on Monday. Citing people close to the case, the newspaper said the meeting would be their first face-to-face encounter since a unanimous federal appeals court found last month that Microsoft was a monopolist and had violated antitrust law. The meeting was expected to focus largely on procedural issues, the sources said.