Then Jobs sued Microsoft for doing the same thing.

And the companies may decide against suing Microsoft for other reasons.

Q. But what about the 19 states that have sued Microsoft?

Who would sue Microsoft in an effort to break its stranglehold on competition?

But attorneys general for the states still suing Microsoft said the changes were mainly clarifications.

If it cannot reach a new agreement, it would then have to sue Microsoft and prepare for a court case likely to last several years.

Another change dropped a provision that licensees could not sue Microsoft.

He said that Eolas had chosen to sue Microsoft and not other companies with similar technology because of its significant market share.

The typical consumer has little to gain from suing Microsoft.

In 1999 a coalition of 19 states and the federal Justice Department sued Microsoft.