JOIE CHEN, CNN ANCHOR: Microsoft going to the nation's high court for a little assistance on something that's been of great concern to Microsoft folks in Redmond, Washington. Joining us now from CNNfn is CNNfn's Tim O'Brien to explain a little bit more about this to us -- Tim.</s>TIM O'BRIEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Joie. It just happened a few moments ago, we just received the petition here at CNN. As you may recall, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson had found that Microsoft was an illegal monopoly and ordered its breakup. The Court of Appeals recently upheld part of that decision, the fact that it was an illegal monopoly, the conclusion that it was such. But it threw out the breakup that the trial judge had ordered, finding that the judge appeared to be biased, there was a very serious appearance of bias, that he had violated a number of judicial ethics. Well, in its appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court Microsoft is saying the effect of that bias and that appearance of bias should require the trial judge's entire decision to be thrown out. It's not asking the U.S. Supreme Court to examine the decision, but really to look at the impact of his appearance of bias. The Court of Appeals said, yes, it was biased, but Microsoft did not show that it was actually hurt by that bias. Microsoft is saying other courts would throw out the entire decision, that there's a conflict in the circuits, and the U.S. Supreme Court should take it up.</s>CHEN: All right, a very complex issue, but we thank Tim O'Brien for his insight. Tim O'Brien comes to us from CNN Financial News.
Microsoft Appeals to Supreme Court