On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:39:04 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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Microsoft settles suit with Mississippi for $100 mln
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| Microsoft faced a rush of class-action suits on behalf of consumers in
| individual states after a U.S. federal judge found in 2000 that the world's
| largest software company abused its monopoly power by tying its Internet
| Explorer browser to its Windows operating system.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssTechMediaTelecomNews/idUSN1152686420090611
You'd think Reuters would do a bit of fact checking.
While it's true that the judge ruled about IE tying, that part was
overturned on appeal. As such, no court case can be based on that ruling.
They were still found to have illegally maintained their monopoly,
particularly when it comes to OEM's, but the tying argument was throuwn
out.
