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Schools await settlements in Microsoft lawsuits
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| Three local school districts will receive a combined $1 million starting this
| year as a result of a legal settlement, and educators plan to use that money
| to put more technology in the hands of students.
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| [...]
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| Wisconsin plaintiffs from a class-action lawsuit reached a settlement with
| Microsoft in 2006. The plaintiffs claimed that Microsoft violated state
| antitrust and unfair competition laws by overcharging customers for its
| products, according to a legal notice. The company denied the claims.
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| District officials have not finalized their plans for the money, but they are
| eager to give students the tools they need to remain competitive in the 21st
| century workforce.
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http://www.wausaudailyherald.com/article/20090802/WDH0101/908020470/1981
YP - Hood has recieved Stateâs $40 million from Microsoft
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| A $100 million settlement between the State of Mississippi and Microsoft was
| reached June 10, 2009, in order to settle anti-trust claims. The agreement
| called for Microsoft to pay the state $40 million within 40 days. Up to $60
| million more will be provided to consumers, businesses, all
| county/local/municipal government entities, public schools and public school
| districts.
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http://yallpolitics.com/index.php/yp/post/17433/
Recent:
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
Related:
Crimes Microsoft Gets Away With - So Far
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| News publications are cautious about making accusations, and because of that,
| some nasty acts of Microsoft are essentially being erased from the record.
|
| [...]
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| Microsoft convinced Baystar Capital to put $50 Million dollars into SCO's
| lawsuit against IBM and other Open Source users, and promised to "backstop"
| Baystar's investment if SCO lost money, according to this sworn testimony.
| But I'm told that one person's testimony, even sworn testimony, isn't proof.
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http://technocrat.net/no-cache/d/2008/7/30/46981
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.
|
| "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.
|
| "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." Â
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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". Â
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http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUKL1051259520070910?rpc=44
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