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Most antitrust experts predict that Sporkin's decision will be overturned on the grounds that he exceeded his limited authority as a reviewing judge. But the Justice Department is now under intense political pressure to take a hard look at everything Microsoft does-including its planned $1.5 billion acquisition of Intuit's personal-finance-software business and the start-up of the Microsoft Network, two cornerstones of Gates' drive to dominate the information superhighway. Last week the antitrust division was reassigning lawyers to the Microsoft case to do just that.
--Reported by David S. Jackson/ San Francisco and Suneel Ratan/Washington