51.   The closely watched antitrust trial was set to begin in Detroit on Thursday, two years after the Justice Department filed its complaint.

52.   The book never mentions the continuing antitrust trial against the company now nearing its end in Washington.

53.   The department is seeking a temporary restraining order blocking the merger until an antitrust trial can be held.

54.   The court also sharply chastized the district judge overseeing the Microsoft antitrust trial for his derogatory comments about the company and its senior executives.

55.   The department would also have to convince a judge there was a reasonable likelihood the department would prevail in an antitrust trial.

56.   The FTC is seeking a preliminary injunction to block the companies from completing the transaction until a full-scale antitrust trial can be held before an FTC administrative law judge.

57.   The Justice Department denounced Microsoft Corp. on Friday, accusing the company of cynical, irresponsible behavior on the last day of its antitrust trial earlier this week.

58.   The Microsoft antitrust trial drones on in Washington.

59.   The lower figure indicates that Microsoft is not the impregnable fortress depicted in the antitrust trial, McKenzie writes in a paper that presents the results of his survey.

60.   The online service is laying low now, the company says, so as not to give Microsoft ammunition to use in the antitrust trial.