Microsoft Remedy Hearings Move into Week 2
WinInfo | at | by Mike
Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly may be presiding over one of the most controversial legal battles in US history, but she's handling it with a grace and intelligence that sharply contrasts with the behavior of Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, who oversaw the original Microsoft antitrust trial. Unlike Jackson, Kollar-Kotelly appears to understand the technical issues revolving around the antitrust case, and she professes to spend hours each night studying these issues and the arguments made by both sides. Jackson's behavior in the first trial, meanwhile, landed him in hot water: The judge openly criticized Microsoft and often appeared to be on the verge of sleep during the trial.