CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Sr. Vice President of the
National Economic Research Associates Dr. David Evans, a recognized expert in
the economics of competition who has testified dozens of times in Federal and
State court, issued the following statement on the June 28 ruling by the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in U.S. v. Microsoft:

    "In the Appeals Court's decision, it's clear that the judges felt that
they were forced to accept Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's findings of fact
even though they believed his conduct during the trial 'seriously tainted' and
'called into question the integrity' of the proceedings. Based on those
findings of fact they overturned the per se tying claim, which had been the
centerpiece of the government's case from the beginning.
     "The Court explicitly declared that their ruling 'drastically' narrowed
the scope of Microsoft's liability. Also, the court vacated the remedies Judge
Jackson prescribed and cautioned the next court against adopting remedies that
don't match the findings of fact.
    "The bottom line is that this ruling clearly sets the stage for a
settlement. It's time for all parties to the case, especially the 19 state
attorneys general, to work together to come to a reasonable resolution."

    Evans has authored in excess of 40 articles and three books on the topic
of antitrust, including Breaking Up Bell and Paying with Plastic.

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