Report: Microsoft talks set for Tuesday

The government and Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) have reportedly been summoned to Chicago on Tuesday for their first round of settlement talks under Judge Richard Posner, who was appointed as a mediator. The New York Times, quoting to a person close to the antitrust case, reported Thursday that besides Judge Posner, chief of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago, the meeting will include lawyers representing Microsoft and the Justice Department and 19 states suing the company. If a settlement is reached, it will most likely happen in the next two months or not at all, according to another person close to the case, the Times reported. "By the end of January, or it won't happen," the source said. --MSNBC