The revelation-packed chronicle of the epic trial between Microsoft and the US Justice Department, is the most important anti-trust case in modern history. The case is putting its defining stamp on the digital age, setting the richest man and company on earth against the most powerful government. This is a thrilling courtroom drama in which Bill Gates and his all-star legal team went down in humiliating defeat caused partly by his own hubris, and partly by his enemies - Sony, Sun Microsystems, Intel and the other companies who hate the Microsoft monopoly and also want to own the future.