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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]
Microsoft antitrust ruling faces appeal
News Massachusetts officials said on Friday they will appeal a recent ruling in Microsoft's long-running antitrust case, while seven other states intend to drop their opposition. In a statement, Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller said, "Seven states and...
[December 2, 2002, 7:12]
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 antitrust case, government prosecutors argued that Microsoft withheld...
[August 6, 2002, 7:59]
Microsoft antitrust judgement: Winners and losers
News Contemplating a market where the old rules may not apply, rivals and partners of Microsoft are no doubt assessing their prospects in a future defined by last Friday's milestone federal antitrust ruling.
[November 9, 1999, 8:07]
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. The appeals court overturned the breakup order, but did agree with Jackson that Microsoft had violated antitrust laws...
[November 1, 2002, 7:30]
Microsoft wins antitrust appeal
News Handing Microsoft a major victory in its antitrust case, a federal appeals court has vacated a lower court's ruling calling for the breakup of the software titan. The decision comes almost exactly a year after a federal judge ruled that Microsoft...
[June 28, 2001, 17:19]
Microsoft wins antitrust suit
News A federal judge has thrown out an antitrust suit brought against Microsoft by the founder of the now-defunct pen-computing company Go Computing, the software giant said on Friday. Kaplan's suit claimed Microsoft violated antitrust laws by trying to...
[July 3, 2006, 15:15]
Microsoft fights antitrust charges
News Microsoft on Friday hopes to reverse a series of legal setbacks before a Baltimore judge, whom it will ask to dismiss three private antitrust cases pending against the software giant. The cases largely draw on Microsoft's lengthy antitrust case...
[January 10, 2003, 16:04]
Microsoft's antitrust offering 'blocks Samba'
News The European branch of the Free Software Foundation (FSFE) has accused Microsoft of freezing out Samba, the open source work group server operating system, in its final attempt to comply with last year's European antitrust ruling.
[June 8, 2005, 15:15]
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. A new judge, randomly chosen from a poll of 14 jurists, would also rehear the tying claim...
[August 15, 2001, 9:34]
Microsoft wins Bristol antitrust case
News After two days of deliberation, a jury in federal court in Bridgeport, Conn.on Friday ruled that Microsoft didn't violate antitrust law when it raised the prices on its source code. Microsoft is in the middle of a sweeping, high-profile antitrust...
[July 19, 1999, 8:47]
Microsoft hits European antitrust deadline
News In early July this year, the EC hit Microsoft with a fine of €280m, for failing to comply with the 2004 antitrust ruling. The software giant hopes the documents, filed on Wednesday, will be the final proof that it has complied with the Commission's...
[November 23, 2006, 13:22]
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]
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 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. The antitrust case against Microsoft can still go back the to Court of Appeals, and then there's the European...
[January 3, 2003, 8:49]
Microsoft gears up for another antitrust battle
News Just when you thought Microsoft might have been nearing the end of a long series of antitrust suits, another one surfaces with RealNetworks' accusation that the software giant illegally used its Windows monopoly to limit consumer choice in digital...
[December 19, 2003, 12:55]
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. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, largely surrounded the company's progress in developing technical...
[January 25, 2006, 7:55]
US Report: Microsoft quotes Netscape to attack antitrust lawsuit
News Microsoft attacked the government for "last-minute allegations that were not part" of the May 1998 antitrust lawsuit. Microsoft attorneys leaned heavily on much previous case law which has voided antitrust proceedings when defendants have shown a...
[September 9, 1998, 10:58]
Microsoft hits back at Opera antitrust claims
News Microsoft has hit back at Opera antitrust claims regarding Internet Explorer, denying that it is abusing its dominant market position to lock users into the web browser. The Norwegian browser company announced on Thursday that it had filed an...
[December 14, 2007, 11:48]
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. I thought, it might be a topic of discussion at some point with the US government on antitrust issues.
[October 23, 1998, 10:48]
