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U.S.-Microsoft antitrust deal to get temporary extension

  • Subject: U.S.-Microsoft antitrust deal to get temporary extension
  • From: Ramon F Herrera <ramon@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:00:34 -0700
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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.

[...]

   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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