Microsoft plans to ask a European court in the next few days for an emergency order blocking a ruling imposed in March that levied a heavy fine and required that Windows be offered without a media player.
A coalition aiming to erase junk e-mail unites behind the law but stumbles over technology.
Unless one side or another decides to appeal, Friday's decision could mark the final chapter in a case once said to be a definitive one for antitrust law in the 21st century.
Google's move to cut the lifespan of its cookie's to a rolling two years may not be enough to appease a European Union privacy group whose major concern is server log data use.
Microsoft has filed seven lawsuits against unnamed defendants who it believes sent spam that violated the US anti-spam law CAN-SPAM.
In moving beyond Web search to the desktop, the company faces a slew of challenges: controversy over privacy, technical hurdles and the rivalry of Microsoft among them.
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