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Microsoft offer considered inadequate

WASHINGTON -- Skeptical government lawyers consider an 11th-hour offer from Microsoft Corp. (msft) to settle its antitrust trial so inadequate in important areas that there were no immediate plans to resume negotiations in Chicago, people close to the case said Saturday.
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WASHINGTON -- Skeptical government lawyers consider an 11th-hour offer from Microsoft Corp. (msft) to settle its antitrust trial so inadequate in important areas that there were no immediate plans to resume negotiations in Chicago, people close to the case said Saturday.

These sources did not rule out the possibility of talks resuming, and the government continued to evaluate the proposal by Microsoft to end the case before Tuesday, when the trial judge has threatened to announce his verdict. Story to follow. -- Wall Street Journal

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