For anyone interested in the recent anti-trust ruling, there's a good interview (text and ogg) on Groklaw now with Georg Greve and Carlo Piana of FSFE and Jeremy Allison and Volker Lendecke of Samba: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070919214307459
The one sentence history is that the European Commission investigated Microsoft for abusing their dominant desktop market to distort the server market and found them guilty, so to rectify the market they were ordered to publish some specs so that others could develop interoperable software - Microsoft dragged their heels and the European Commission started a 1.5-million per-day fine, so Microsoft appealled to the Court of First Instance and on Monday, that court confirmed that the European Commission was right.
(ok, ok, so it was more than one sentence and I just replaced the full stops with "and" :)
FSFE's press statement from Monday is here: http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/press-release/2007q3/000186.html
And a previous Groklaw story is at: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070917053717322
All along, FSFE argued the general point that free software should not be excluded and the specific point that Samba is the only remaining competitor, so excluding Samba would make the information useless. The European Commission agreed.
About the future, MS can now only appeal to the very highest court - the European Court of Justice - but they can only mount an appeal their on the procedural and legal aspects, not on the facts or substance of the case.