despite some of the initial "microsoft wins" sort of headlines and stories you may have read, the appeals court did not at all exonerate microsoft, as dan gillmor explains. the appeals court upheld the rulings that microsoft has a monopoly in the operating system market, it used unfair business practices to maintain that dominance, and it must be restrained from further abuses. the appeals court just vacated the breakup order as a remedy, primarily because judge jackson acted like a jerk.