Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson has ordered the US Department of Justice to break the Microsoft Beast into three pieces, separating operating system, applications, and Internet concerns including browser, portal and ISP. He gave the company a mere 48 hours to reply??The effect of a bisection will, in effect, create two separate monopolies ... both of which are dominant,” Jackson said during the hearing. He suggested the government might consider including a ?third Internet browser company? that would have responsibility for Internet Explorer. He said that idea was proposed by two trade associations in what he termed ?an excellent brief.?Microsoft lawyers were apopleptic. The most important company in human history had been denied due process, they cried. ?It was incumbent upon us to inform the court, and the record, that there was a good deal of evidence that we thought was pertinent to the subject of appropriate relief, and to make that a part of the record,? Microsoft General Counsel and silver-tongued-devil William Neukom said at a press conference outside the courthouse. But for others the news seemed a positive development. ?Not only will the world not end if there is a break-up of Microsoft, but it will be a much better world for the industry, for consumers and for innovation,? said Computer and Communications Industry Association spokesman Ed Black.