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Public Blasts Microsoft Antitrust Settlement
News The Justice Department and Microsoft on Thursday filed a legal brief summarising public comments received on an antitrust settlement cut in November. She has been put in an awkward position, because not everyone is a party to the settlement," said...
[February 8, 2002, 8:45]
Microsoft Antitrust Debate Heats Up
News Monday marked the end for public comment about the Microsoft antitrust settlement, setting the stage for the final showdown between opponents and supporters of the deal. Microsoft, the Justice Department and nine of 18 states reached a settlement...
[January 29, 2002, 8:57]
Apple Objects To Microsoft Settlement
News Apple on Monday objected to a tentative antitrust settlement between California and Microsoft, saying the agreement will actually benefit the software giant. Apple's complaint largely revolves around the destiny of funds that are not claimed by...
[January 14, 2003, 8:20]
Microsoft Antitrust Efforts: Windows Dressing?
News Microsoft outlined the ways it is complying with a November antitrust settlement in a Monday conference call, but analysts say it is little more than Windows dressing. During the court hearing on the states' proposal, trustbusters criticised one...
[August 6, 2002, 7:59]
PC Makers Attack New Windows Fees
News PC makers and several states allege that new Microsoft licensing agreements, arrived at under the proposed antitrust settlement between the software maker and the US Justice Department, impose harsher terms on some manufacturers than agreements...
[February 22, 2002, 12:12]
Microsoft Antitrust Decision Due Today
News A federal judge will disclose on Friday whether she has accepted a proposed settlement in Microsoft's long-running antitrust case. Under a federal law called the Tunney Act, Kollar-Kotelly must determine whether the antitrust settlement "is in the...
[November 1, 2002, 7:30]
Microsoft, DOJ Unveil Settlement Report
News The Justice Department and Microsoft on Thursday released a report summarising public comments received on an antitrust settlement deal cut in November. Roughly half the comments were against the settlement, 7,500 were in favour of the deal, and 7...
[February 8, 2002, 6:31]
States Still Mulling Over Microsoft
News The response by the state attorneys general to the proposed antitrust settlement deal between Microsoft and the Justice Department remained up in the air at a crucial hearing on Tuesday before a federal judge.
[November 6, 2001, 16:58]
Appeals Court Reaffirms Microsoft Settlement
News A US Appeals Court on Wednesday upheld Microsoft's landmark antitrust settlement with the Department of Justice and several state attorneys general, rejecting Massachusetts' appeal for stiffer penalties.
[July 1, 2004, 9:30]
Microsoft Foes Urge Antitrust Punishment
News Two more Microsoft foes have joined an effort to overturn the landmark antitrust settlement that a federal judge approved in November. Under the Tunney Act, a federal judge must determine that such an antitrust settlement is "in the public interest.
[January 3, 2003, 8:49]
Developers Sceptical About Microsoft Concessions
News Developers and licensees are privately questioning Microsoft's claim that it is offering significant concessions in its antitrust settlement proposal to the US Department of Justice. Ballmer's claims that the company has gone as far as it is...
[March 30, 2000, 8:37]
Microsoft Foes Can Testify At Hearing
News A federal judge will let outsiders, including Microsoft competitors, make presentations at next week's hearing to determine whether the landmark antitrust settlement is in the public interest. Microsoft and the Justice Department earlier had...
[March 1, 2002, 8:53]
Sources: No Microsoft Ruling Tuesday
News Microsoft's offer to settle federal antitrust charges frees computer makers to embed competitors' software into Microsoft's Windows, one of several major concessions that could form a basis for resolving the case, people close to the settlement...
[March 28, 2000, 0:25]
MS Backs Off, DoJ Wants More
News Microsoft's offer to settle federal antitrust charges frees computer makers to embed competitors' software into Microsoft's Windows, one of several major concessions that could form a basis for resolving the case, people close to the settlement...
[March 27, 2000, 14:02]
Will MS Pact Changes Open Floodgates?
News The US Justice Department and Microsoft are expected to file separate legal briefs on Wednesday that will reveal modifications to their landmark antitrust settlement. The dismissal request in conjunction with changes to the settlement could end the...
[February 28, 2002, 9:10]
What The Microsoft-DOJ Deal Means
News Microsoft and the Department of Justice on Friday agreed to settle a three-year-old antitrust battle -- a settlement that could change the computing landscape and, according to some proponents, bolster the sagging US economy.
[November 7, 2001, 11:20]
Microsoft Judge Approves Settlement
News A federal judge on Friday largely accepted a proposed settlement in Microsoft's long-running antitrust case with the US Justice Department. For all the news on the antitrust trial and settlement, see ZDNet UK's DoJ/Microsoft News Section for the...
[November 2, 2002, 7:44]
Lawsuit Targets Microsoft And The DoJ
News A nonprofit antitrust group filed a lawsuit on Thursday alleging the Justice Department and Microsoft violated federal law by not properly disclosing all information and communications related to settlement negotiations.
[January 25, 2002, 9:46]
Apple Joins Critics Of Microsoft Deal
News To the extent that this influx of Microsoft products undermines Apple, one of Microsoft's few remaining competitors, whose base of strength happens to be in the public schools, the proposed settlement of these antitrust suits may actually be...
[November 28, 2001, 9:55]
Vista Clears Antitrust Hurdle
News In a periodic joint status report, required as a part of Microsoft's 2002 antitrust settlement with the US Department of Justice and state plaintiffs, the government attorneys said a technical committee charged with overseeing the software giant's...
[November 22, 2006, 8:02]
