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Microsoft accepts US antitrust oversight extension
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| Microsoft had agreed to an 18-month extension of federal court oversight of
| its business practices mandated by its settlement in a landmark antitrust
| lawsuit.
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| In court papers jointly filed by the US Justice Department and 17 states,
| Microsoft agreed to extend supervision until May 2011, rather than in
| November as previously scheduled. The extension will give government
| overseers more time to review technical information that Microsoft agreed to
| provide potential licensees of software that interfaces with the Windows
| operating system.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/17/microsoft_antitrust_extension/
Microsoft commits many crimes and then tries to characterise its customers as
criminals:
Software Group Doles Out Cash To Piracy Tipsters
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| The Software & Information Industry Association it paid nearly $90,000 in
| March to 10 sources who reported cases of corporate end-user software piracy
| to SIIA.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=216500107
Related:
Microsoft tries to avoid Ballmer deposition in Vista suit
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| Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Steve Ballmer is the subject of a new legal
| squabble in a lawsuit over the company's Windows Vista marketing practices.
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http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2008/09/29/daily37.html
Is MS Preening in Public Posts?
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| The author of the email, posted on ZDNet in a Talkback forum on the Microsoft
| antitrust trial, claimed her name was Michelle Bradley and that she
| had "retired" from Microsoft last week.
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| "A verbal memo [no email allowed] was passed around the MS campus encouraging
| MS employee's to post to ZDNet articles like this one," the email said.
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| "The theme is 'Microsoft is responsible for all good things in computerdom.'
| The government has no right to prevent MS from doing anything. Period.
| The 'memo' suggests we use fictional names and state and to identify
| ourselves as students," the author claimed.
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http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/1999/02/17745
Unclear if Microsoft memo will be allowed evidence
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| A memo by Microsoft's Jim Durkin recalled a meeting by Gates and other
| executives in which Gates said of RealNetworks: "This is a strategic area,
| and we need to win it."
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| The same memo dated June 5, 1997, quotes another senior Microsoft executive,
| Robert Muglia, as saying that RealNetworks is "like Netscape, the only
| difference is we have a chance to start this battle earlier in the game".
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http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUKL1051259520070910?rpc=44
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