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Microsoft on Trial: Netscape 'imagined' antitrust case
News But since antitrust law often frowns on undoing such "technical ties," Microsoft has argued it cannot be sued for anticompetitive behaviour. Antitrust officials have pronounced that action illegal. I thought, it might be a topic of discussion at...
[October 23, 1998, 10:48]
Microsoft: DoJ case all bluster, no proof
News Hostilities resumed in the landmark Micrcosoft antitrust trial Friday, with the combatants filing written arguments that had Microsoft dismissing the government's case as "bluster" and the U.S. The DoJ and 19 state attorneys general filed suit...
[September 13, 1999, 8:59]
Microsoft on Trial: Fairness of poll questioned
News The chief economist for the defence in the Microsoft antitrust trial Thursday said he had no idea that an opinion poll cited in his written testimony was commissioned by company Chairman Bill Gates specifically to support his company's views in...
[January 15, 1999, 10:22]
MS, DOJ sharply clash in new filings
News On Tuesday lawyers for both sides submitted proposed findings of facts in connection with the Microsoft antitrust trial that closely traced themes outlined during the 76 days they argued in court during the earlier phase of the case.
[August 11, 1999, 9:09]
Trade groups steal antitrust show
News The star of Wednesday's hearing on proposed remedies in the Microsoft antitrust trial in Washington, D.C.was neither the software giant nor the Department of Justice. In the document, the groups argue that the judge should look back to the 1995...
[May 25, 2000, 8:36]
Microsoft on Trial: DoJ case opens window for Gates' rivals
News It's a long way from over, but the impact of Microsoft's brutal antitrust trial may already be reverberating through the marketplace, with experts pointing to renewed talks between America Online and Netscape Communications.as one of the first...
[November 20, 1998, 10:12]
Napster gains another powerful ally
News A second key figure from the Microsoft antitrust trial has stepped into the legally precarious world of peer-to-peer file swapping. Joel Klein, the former antitrust chief for the Justice Department, on Wednesday was named chairman and chief...
[February 1, 2001, 10:04]
Mediator appointed in MS antitrust case
News Giving it one last shot, the federal judge overseeing the Microsoft antitrust trial has appointed a federal mediator in bid to prod the two sides to reach an out-of-court settlement. What's more, he is not going to need much time to prepare for the...
[November 22, 1999, 8:35]
Microsoft offer considered inadequate
News Sceptical government lawyers consider an 11th-hour offer from Microsoft to settle its antitrust trial so inadequate in important areas that there were no immediate plans to resume negotiations in Chicago, people close to the case said Saturday.
[March 27, 2000, 7:35]
It can pay to criticise Microsoft
News Events in the EU antitrust trial against Microsoft took a serious turn this week following reports that the head of one the main witnesses against the software giant personally received around £5.25m as a result of his organisation pulling out of...
[November 25, 2004, 12:05]
Microsoft to judge: Yes ... but!
News Throughout the course of its long antitrust trial, lawyers for Microsoft fought tenaciously to resist suggestions that the software maker's actions were in any way anti-competitive. And indeed, Microsoft again signalled today that it will appeal...
[May 11, 2000, 8:16]
A Year Ago: MS and DoJ brace for Friday decision
News But a decision in the landmark Microsoft antitrust trial may be only hours away With the approach of another Friday, all eyes are again on Washington DC, where the presiding judge in the Microsoft antitrust case may issue his ruling in the so...
[November 5, 2000, 6:04]
Gates admits remedy would've curbed Microsoft
News Although he's highly critical of the remedies proposed by nine states and the District of Columbia in his company's antitrust trial, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates acknowledged on Tuesday that some of the restrictions would have prevented the...
[April 24, 2002, 11:47]
Microsoft not quitting antitrust fight
News On Tuesday, in fact, while the software giant sat down with prosecutors in an attempt to negotiate an end to its antitrust trial, Microsoft also stepped up its efforts to obtain access to more information pertaining to the America Online Inc.Net...
[March 31, 1999, 12:05]
Microsoft wins Bristol antitrust case
News 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 antitrust cases because the Bristol case was so narrow in scope, concentrating only on a...
[July 19, 1999, 8:47]
MS to antitrust judge: Give us more time
News Microsoft asked a federal judge on Friday to extend by another four months the scheduled date for a remedy hearing in its landmark antitrust trial. The hearing would help the judge determine what sanctions to make against Microsoft for its...
[December 24, 2001, 9:27]
A Year Ago: Microsoft on trial: Intel's McGeady refuses the bait
News At yesterday afternoon's proceedings in the landmark antitrust trial, Microsoft attorney Steven Holley tried to get Intel vice president Steve McGeady to admit that his company dropped a multimedia project because it wouldn't work with Windows 95...
[November 11, 1999, 6:05]
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]
A Year Ago: Gates contradicts trial witness in new book
News Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, writing in an upcoming book about the benefits of technology for business, appears to directly contradict a key witness for his company at its antitrust trial when he describes how the company tracks important sales...
[March 17, 2000, 6:36]
Six judges return to Microsoft suit
News It had previously made that same request during the remedies phase of the antitrust trial, when it also suggested that Internet Explorer be made open source and that Microsoft be required to auction Office licences, which could move the software...
[November 5, 2003, 9:40]
