Microsoft's request to subpoena IBM in the software giant's antitrust battle with European regulators was denied by a U.S. federal judge on Thursday.
Microsoft and RealNetworks announced a sweeping deal on Tuesday that puts aside their legal differences and aims to shore up their respective digital-music strategies.
The European Commission will not make a decision on whether Microsoft has complied with its antitrust ruling until September, an EC spokesman said on Friday.
An association of industry heavyweights has been given the all-clear to join in fighting Microsoft's attempt to reverse its European antitrust conviction.
Microsoft on Monday said it will appeal a ruling by the Japanese Fair Trade Commission that the software maker's contracts with computer makers violate that country's antitrust law.
When you're the industry's 800-pound gorilla, what's a few billion dollars to pay for problems to disappear?
For those who feared that the antitrust trial was a dangerous attempt by government to reassert control over the marketplace, there was plenty to cheer about. But, just what did the trial accomplish?
Microsoft is now being investigated by antitrust enforcers over its investment in Corel and its pending purchase of Great Plains Software, in what could be a test of the Bush administration's approach.
Microsoft's chairman argues that the proposed remedies would set the industry back to pre-PC days.
Microsoft's antitrust triumph may be short-lived.
In a move that was widely anticipated, Microsoft on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court to take its antitrust appeal.
A US court has issued setbacks to both Microsoft and the government in their long-running antitrust battle.
The US Justice Department and 18 states have asked the US Court of Appeals to forgo the normal waiting period before returning the antitrust case to a lower court.
Within the legal community, Judge Penfield-Jackson messed up for sure. The 17 pages (the ruling was contained in 125 pages) about his alleged "Judicial Misconduct" was tinged with meanness.
Microsoft rival Sun Microsystems, one of the software maker's sharpest critics, lauded a federal appeals court ruling that Microsoft had abused its monopoly power and urged the courts to curb its advance in Internet-related software.
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