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As the cameras rolled through 1999, the Microsoft team didn't look invincible, onscreen or off. The dawning of the New Millenium / Paradigm / Economy had us breathlessly watching as the NASDAQ marched relentlessly up and above the 5000 mark. Microsoft was not relevant in one piece or two. But what comes around comes around like a recycled Christmas fruitcake. A different player usually gets it each time. The dot-com bubble pops one day and the dreams of infinite bandwidth turn into nightmares of infinite dark fiber.

While sock puppets, aeron chairs, and butterfly ballots with those whatchamacallit dimples fade into obscurity the US-Microsoft tango has again picked up its beat. Through a trail of Judge Jackson's bombast, divestiture remedies gone pffft, and filings and counterfilings, Microsoft emerges, pushing every trick in the book to get Windows XP to the masses in October with its advantages to Microsoft intact.

This seems a good time to update our reading list with a collection of books and online materials that give context and perspective to the last two and a half years of the Microsoft antitrust case and to what may yet evolve.

The tango, step-by-step online, from the partners' points of view:

• The Government's Trial Archives
• Microsoft's Documents

• The legal treasure trove at Findlaw
• The news from Wired
• Our original Microsoft Antitrust Trial Library
  (March 1999)