Microsoft, state prosecutors, and the U.S. Department of Justice on
Tuesday said a federal judge needs more time to weigh whether Redmond
should be subjected to a lengthier period of antitrust policing.
In a joint filing with U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, who
has been overseeing Microsoft's antitrust compliance, they asked for a
soon-to-expire oversight period to be temporarily extended until at
latest January 31, 2008. That way, the judge will have more time to
weigh the merits of last-minute pleas from a number of state
prosecutors to add another five years to the oversight regime.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9807736-7.html
It looks like the prosecutors and the prosecuted are in very cozy and
chummy terms...
-RFH
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