While president Steve Ballmer said at Comdex this week that Microsoft would under no circumstances entertain the possibility of breaking up the company as a term of settlement, Microsoft CEO Bill Gates said during a "Good Morning America" TV appearance on Wednesday that Microsoft would not rule out anything, including breakup, as a discussion point for settlement. Today, in Washington, D.C., representatives from Microsoft and the Justice Department are meeting in the judge's chambers to work out the schedule for the remainder of the antitrust case's proceedings. Take me to the DoJ/Microsoft special.