So Symantec? Microsoft has also lined up support from a mixture of Democrat and Republican lawyers, including Boyden Gray who was counsel to President Bush; Griffin Bell, who was attorney general during President Carter's administration; and Nicholas Katzenbach, who was President Johnson's attorney general and who worked side-by-side with DoJ lead counsel David Boies in the IBM antitrust case. The next stage in the trial will be the filing by Microsoft tomorrow of its revised brief - essentially its legal defence - followed by a day in court on 22 February for final arguments. Bill Gates commented in Davos that "There's a good mediation process going on in Chicago," but he wouldn't comment any further. ®