Before that happens, however, consider how consumers and the computing world have fared since 1995, when the government case against Microsoft began.

The government case involves the largest amount of money and the most sweeping charges.

He brandished a role of toilet paper to belittle the government case.

In the government case, Netscape was portrayed as the principal corporate victim.

What is more, the government case will almost certainly lose its courtroom star.

He's been a valuable aid in certain government cases.

No one wants to leap to conclusions about a government case in such an important area.

He consistently refused to reveal the sources of his investigations, leading to numerous government cases against him.

"It's not hard to see," the lawyer said, "that the government case has significant problems."

So they seized on the numbers, and there have been some pretty authoritative figures trashing the government case ever since.