Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson has ordered Microsoft to be split into two separate companies.
Last year, Federal District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ordered Microsoft to be split into two companies after finding that it had repeatedly bullied rivals and violated the Sherman Antitrust Act.
In 2000, ruling in an antitrust lawsuit brought by the US government, Jackson ordered Microsoft to be split in two after ruling that the company had stifled competition and used illegal methods to protect its monopoly in computer operating systems.
In April, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ruled that the firm had used "anti-competitive means" to preserve its monopoly in PC operating-system software, and in June he ordered it to be split in two.
It was to prevent similar behaviour in future that the original judge, Thomas Penfield Jackson, ordered the company to be split in two.
The case is scheduled to be heard by Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, who presided over the government's antitrust case against Microsoft and ordered the company to be split into two parts.
The judge had discussed the case with a reporter from The New York Times during the trial on condition that his remarks would not be published until the case left his courtroom, and several newspapers ran lengthy accounts of interviews with him shortly after he ordered the company to be split in two.
The couple's £1.3m seven-bedroom home, set in 16 acres of Suffolk countryside, was ordered to be sold and the proceeds split.
Thomas Penfield Jackson, who died of cancer on 16 June at the age of 76, was a federal judge in Washington who presided over a Microsoft antitrust case and ordered the software giant to be split up.
In 2000, ruling in a historic antitrust lawsuit brought by the government against Microsoft, Jackson ordered the software giant to be split in two after concluding the company had stifled competition and used illegal methods to protect its monopoly in computer operating systems.
