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Judge extends Microsoft-DOJ deadline
News A federal judge on Thursday extended the deadline for a joint status report that Microsoft and the government have been drafting for the next phase of the landmark antitrust trial. People are still too stunned to work efficiently or think clearly...
[September 14, 2001, 10:24]
Caldera unlocks Microsoft evidence
News For years, Caldera Inc.has boasted of its rich store of 1.5 million pages of documents that it has collected in its information-gathering process for its antitrust trial against Microsoft Corp. Department of Justice antitrust trial, Microsoft's own...
[April 29, 1999, 10:01]
Ballmer leads new Microsoft witness list
News In June 2001, a seven-panel Court of Appeals upheld about a dozen separate antitrust violations against Microsoft. The antitrust case against Microsoft can still go back the to Court of Appeals, and then there's the European Commission's...
[April 30, 2002, 13:45]
US Report: Judge denies Microsoft request for private depositions
News The judge overseeing the antitrust suit between government antitrust officials and Microsoft on Wednesday denied further attempts by the software giant to ban spectators and the press from pre-trial testimony, but also invited the company to...
[August 13, 1998, 10:03]
Microsoft on trial: Executives told to 'kill' QuickTime
News Testifying in the Microsoft antitrust trial, Apple senior vice president Avadis Tevanian told the US District Court that officials from the world's largest maker of PC software made the threat in various ways over a period of more than a year...
[November 6, 1998, 14:33]
MS trial: Perusing the 'Posner effect'
News Interestingly, The Cato Institute -- a think tank that has penned treatises favouring Microsoft during the DOJ antitrust trial -- sells one of Posner's books, "Natural Monopoly And Its Regulation," published in 1998.
[November 24, 1999, 9:27]
Klein's departure won't impact MS case
News Joel Klein's departure from the US Department of Justice is unlikely to have any significant impact on the Microsoft antitrust case, according to legal experts and trial watchers. Under Klein, the DoJ antitrust division has been one of the most...
[September 20, 2000, 8:01]
Gates, Ballmer may testify at hearing
News But in all of them Microsoft made clear the only acceptable resolution to the nearly four-year-old antitrust trial is a settlement deal cut in November with the Justice Department and nine states. Friday's legal barrage indicates Microsoft does not...
[February 11, 2002, 9:03]
Charles Cooper "IT's Like This..."
News By now, a couple of things about the Microsoft antitrust trial are becoming increasingly clear: Each day, the government introduces into evidence yet another embarrassing memo or damning piece of testimony by a senior industry executive to support...
[November 12, 1998, 15:12]
Bristol: Microsoft aggressive, not anti-competitive
News Microsoft's defense strategy Friday appeared similar to tactics it's used at times during the Department Of Justice antitrust trial in Washington. As part of its antitrust suit, Bristol will argue that Microsoft is a monopolist and therefore must...
[June 7, 1999, 11:25]
Microsoft wins Bristol antitrust case
News Microsoft is in the middle of a sweeping, high-profile antitrust trial brought by the U.S. A separate antitrust case brought by Caldera is set to go to trial in January. Friday's outcome in the Bristol trial shouldn't affect the companies other...
[July 19, 1999, 8:47]
Court ruling could make Microsoft bolder than ever
News When Microsoft dominated high-tech media coverage in 2000, much of the news focused on its antitrust battle while the company's business appeared to languish. During its antitrust battle with the Justice Department and 19 states, Microsoft showed...
[June 29, 2001, 9:04]
Hurdles lie ahead for Microsoft
News Microsoft may have ducked the murder-one conviction and the death penalty, but they sure look like they've been hit with a murder two," said Rich Gray, a Silicon Valley antitrust attorney who closely followed the trial.
[July 2, 2001, 8:50]
FAQ: What the appeals court's ruling means
News As for the DOJ, the Justice Department has never dropped an antitrust case it won at the trial level. The Justice Department and 19 states filed antitrust charges against Microsoft in May 1998. After 76 days of trial and some later proceedings, US...
[June 29, 2001, 9:29]
A Year Ago: New MS suits opening Pandora's Box?
News They cite much of the evidence already introduced by government attorneys during the Microsoft antitrust trial in Washington. When it got socked with two private antitrust lawsuits last week, Microsoft waved the filings away as rehashes of old...
[February 23, 2000, 6:10]
US Report: Microsoft asks court to keep pre-trial testimony closed
News Microsoft told a federal appeals court Monday that it must close to the public pretrial testimony in the government's antitrust case against it or risk creating a "media circus" that will only hamper its efforts to prepare for trial next month.
[August 19, 1998, 7:18]
A Year Ago: Microsoft on Trial: Final DoJ witness today?
News Throughout the antitrust trial proceeding thus far, Microsoft has attempted to show repeatedly that it has not jacked up operating system or application product prices, despite the fact that it has added numerous features and functionality to its...
[January 5, 2000, 6:02]
Microsoft on Trial: Final DoJ witness today?
News Throughout the antitrust trial proceeding thus far, Microsoft has attempted to show repeatedly that it has not jacked up operating system or application product prices, despite the fact that it has added numerous features and functionality to its...
[January 5, 1999, 16:18]
Microsoft 'destroyed evidence' in patent case
News Burst.com, a streaming media software company, on Monday filed a pretrial motion with a US District Court in Baltimore asking the judge to find Microsoft has destroyed evidence and to instruct a jury to take that into consideration once the...
[November 19, 2004, 7:40]
Microsoft decision coming today
News Most trial watchers expect the judge to find the company in violation of antitrust law. Microsoft attributed the breakdown in talks to the hardline approach of the 19 state attorneys general, who, along with the Department of Justice, sued...
[April 3, 2000, 16:48]
