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Antitrust: Is Google The Next Microsoft?
News Microsoft, of course, began writing fat cheques to lobbyists — including Rick Rule, a former top Justice Department antitrust official — only after its antitrust headaches began in 1997. What got the software company into trouble in the 1990s "wasn...
[July 23, 2007, 17:36]
Antitrust: Microsoft Makes Case For Delay
News Microsoft on Tuesday attacked the government's request to push its antitrust case forward while the Supreme Court considers the company's request for appeal. The Supreme Court might take the appeal, but that's a separate question of whether they...
[August 15, 2001, 9:34]
Antitrust Talks All Above Board, Says Microsoft
News Microsoft on Monday filed the first of two legal briefs expected this week to address the pair of simultaneous tracks in its landmark antitrust case. The Tunney Act makes sure there aren't any backroom, smoke-filled deals like there were with the...
[December 11, 2001, 12:29]
US Report: Antitrust Suit Against MS Likely
News Settlement talks between Microsoft and government regulators broke down Saturday, setting the stage for the filing of a major antitrust suit against the software maker today. The Justice Department and 20 states had been poised to file antitrust...
[May 18, 1998, 10:09]
Antitrust Ally Returns To Haunt Oracle
News One of Oracle's old antitrust allies has become the company's top antitrust adversary. Silicon Valley attorney Gary Reback, who marshalled industry opposition to Microsoft's efforts to squeeze Netscape from the browser business and who compiled...
[June 27, 2003, 9:30]
Antitrust Ruling Doesn't Faze Microsoft
News While Microsoft's stock price may have taken a beating as a result of the harsh antitrust ruling levied by Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson against the company, Microsoft Corp.didn't let the decision cause any hesitation in its marketing efforts.
[April 5, 2000, 9:43]
Minnesota And Microsoft Verge On Antitrust Agreement
News Microsoft on Monday reached a preliminary settlement with consumers in Minnesota to end an antitrust suit that claimed the company had overcharged for its Windows operating system and its Office application software.
[April 20, 2004, 9:20]
EC Awaits Microsoft's Full Antitrust Compliance
News The expected version of Windows without Microsoft's Media Player is being held up by technical issues, despite the release of the scaled-down operating system being a fundamental part of European antitrust reparations against the software giant...
[April 4, 2005, 17:15]
Microsoft Concedes Royalties In Antitrust Offering
News This offer follows the initial antitrust ruling on 24 March, 2004, which demanded that Microsoft disclose information to rival makers of server software to enable their products to be interoperable with Windows.
[June 6, 2005, 13:05]
EC May Put Antitrust Focus On Google
News Following the rejection of Microsoft's antitrust appeal, the European Commission has defended its stance against US critics and is believed to be considering action against other technology suppliers, with Google the most likely target.
[September 21, 2007, 15:30]
Microsoft Seeks Help In EU Antitrust Fight
News Microsoft has contacted powerful firms and the US government to seek help in its ongoing antitrust battle with the European Commission. According to the Financial Times, Microsoft has met with officials in the White House and US Department of...
[November 14, 2005, 15:20]
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. On Thursday, the American Antitrust Institute (AAI), an independent research...
[January 29, 2002, 8:57]
Microsoft's Antitrust Concessions Are 'pointless'
News But a German open source consultancy that has been involved in the EC's market test of Microsoft's final antitrust offering claims that these royalty-free concessions are pointless as the information is already available on the Internet, is...
[July 13, 2005, 17:55]
DOJ, Microsoft Close To Antitrust Deal
News Microsoft and the Justice Department reportedly have made significant headway toward settling the landmark antitrust case before a court-imposed Friday deadline. If some or all of the states are not in agreement with the Justice Department and...
[November 1, 2001, 8:57]
Microsoft To Google: Learn From Our Antitrust Lesson
News A Microsoft attorney says the company has learned how to deal with antitrust regulators and that Google could glean a thing or two from the experience. Phelps had some suggestions for companies facing antitrust regulators.
[June 29, 2007, 8:09]
EC May Extend MS Antitrust Probe
Blog The EC is to extend its antitrust investigation into Microsoft's behaviour during "a struggle last year to ratify its Office software file format as an international standard," the Wall Street Journal reports.
[February 8, 2008, 15:59]
Microsoft Slow To Comply With Antitrust Deal
News Microsoft is falling behind in meeting certain obligations under its antitrust agreement with the U.S.government, the Bush administration said. The criticism, leveled by federal and state prosecutors in a document filed on Monday with U.S.
[January 25, 2006, 7:55]
Microsoft Marks 10 Years Of Antitrust Action
Talkback An open letter to antitrust, competition, consumer and trade practice monitoring agency officials worldwide. A plea for relief from Microsoft's escalating anti-competitive tactics.http://itheresies.blogspot.com/2004_03_01_itheresies_archive.html
[April 14, 2004, 13:59]
Antitrust Concerns Prompt Vista Search Changes
News Microsoft on Wednesday outlined the changes it plans to make to the desktop search feature in Windows Vista to satisfy antitrust concerns. The software maker agreed in June to make the alterations to the way desktop search operates in response to...
[September 13, 2007, 8:36]
Rambus Launches More Antitrust Action
News Chip designer Rambus has filed antitrust lawsuits against Siemens and Micron Technology, furthering its legal assault on rivals. The company filed an antitrust lawsuit in the Superior Court of California on Wednesday.
[May 6, 2004, 10:00]
