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2000, 06:24 GMT 07:24 UK Microsoft: Winners and Losers Personal
computers running Microsoft Windows PCs might lose their
position of dominance By BBC News Online's Kevin Anderson in
Washington  Microsoft's partners and competitors are now
absorbing the possibility that the software giant might be split
in two.  Microsoft has promised an appeal, but even the fastest
of legal scenarios sees the government and the company
continuing the legal battle for another year and a half. Many
legal experts anticipate it will take longer.  Broadly speaking,
Microsoft's competitors stand to gain and its partners are made
vulnerable by the company's continuing legal battle.  But in the
end, at least one analyst says that not only Microsoft, but the
US as a whole, could be hobbled at a