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Windows 7 Gets Antitrust Scrutiny
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| Technical advisers to the antitrust regulators who monitor Microsoft Corp.'s
| compliance with a 2002 antitrust settlement will test Windows 7 "more
| thoroughly" than earlier versions of the operating system, according to a
| recently-released status report filed with the federal judge watching over
| the company.
|
| The three-member panel of computer experts that works for state antitrust
| officials has had a copy of Windows 7 since at least last March , but in
| December 2008, Microsoft delivered additional documentation to the Technical
| Committee.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/158687/windows_7_antitrust.html?tk=rss_news
They should assign it to a different department. USDOJ is morbidly corrupt. It
has Microsoft lawyers inside of it, literally.
Recent:
U.S. Won't Extend Microsoft Antitrust Sanctions
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| The U.S. Department of Justice said it will not seek to extend the
| restrictions placed on Microsoft Corp.'s business practices
| following its antitrust settlement with the U.S. government in 2002.
|
| Many of the restrictions are due to expire Nov. 12, and last week
| several U.S. states filed motions in favor of extending them for a
| further five years. Four of those states -- New York, Maryland,
| Louisiana and Florida -- had previously said they opposed an
| extension.
|
| The DOJ had also opposed the extension, and on Friday it made it
| clear that it would not be making a turnabout like the four U.S.
| states.
|
| [...]
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| The DOJ didn't explain its decision Friday. In August it said it
| felt the judgment had been successful in preventing Microsoft from
| continuing its exclusionary behavior.
|
| The states who favor an extension disagree. They say operating
| systems haven't evolved as quickly as people thought they would in
| 2002, and that Microsoft could still use the dominance of Internet
| Explorer to choke competitors in the emerging Web 2.0 world.
|
| A status hearing that will likely address extending the
| restrictions is scheduled for Nov. 6 with District Court Judge
| Colleen Kollar-Kotelly.
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| The other states pushing for an extension are California,
| Connecticut, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Massachusetts and the
| District of Columbia.
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| Separately last month the DOJ raised hackles in Europe by
| criticizing the European Union's decision to reject Microsoft's
| appeal of its antitrust decision there.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,138727-pg,1/article.html
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