Micro$oft, having been hit with a slap on the wrist in the DoJ battle, is not out of the woods yet. Waiting in the wings are various civil suits which build on the findings of fact from the DoJ case. Judge Jackson determined that, by cracky, M$ was acting as a monopoly and had done some bad things thereby. The DoJ could get all squishy on them because their emphasis was on how to keep M$ from doing bad things any more. But Sun, Netscape, et al., are out for blood damages from those bad things, and want to be able to take them as proven in court.
Which explains why M$ sought to have 395 of Jackson’s 412 findings of fact summarily thrown out or reopened or otherwise debated into the ground. And why they’re sorely disappointed that a federal judge has said, nope. And why M$ instead plans to appeal them individually (and, doubtless, indefinitely) …