Calif. Judge Cuts Microsoft Legal Fees
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A San Francisco judge ordered Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) to pay lawyers involved in its $1.1 billion class action settlement $100 million in legal fees, less than
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Microsoft Corp. agreed to obey key parts of a 2004 antitrust ruling upheld by an appeals court last month, EU regulators said Monday, cutting royalties for rivals and handing information over to open source developers.
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A JUDGE IS ordering Microsoft to pay $112.5 million to attorneys who successfully sued the software maker for monopolizing a segment of California&#39;s market.
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In compliance with the ruling, Microsoft will cut royalties for rivals and hand over information to developers.
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Several California cities and counties, including San Francisco and Los Angeles, sued Microsoft Corp. on Friday, accusing the software giant of illegally charging inflated prices for its products because of monopoly control of the personal computer operating system market.
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The federal judge overseeing  Microsoft Corp.'s  antitrust settlement said on Tuesday  she would leave it up to government lawyers to determine how  best to handle Google Inc.'s  concerns about  Microsoft's Vista operating system.
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California Attorney General Jerry Brown said Wednesday that Microsoft Corp. has agreed to make "significant changes" in its new Vista operating system to stay in compliance with a U.S. court agreement in Microsoft's antitrust case.
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A panel of judges on Thursday is scheduled to hear Microsoft's appeal in a case where a jury ordered the software maker to pay $520.6 million in damages after finding that Internet Explorer (IE) infringed on a patent.
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This fourth priority&#39;s main focus has been improving or obtaining CRM and ERP software for the past year and a half. A San Francisco judge ordered Microsoft to pay lawyers involved in its $1.
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The Penguin went missing, while Apple went to Hollywood For all but three of the past 17 years, Microsoft has been involved in antitrust litigation with government agencies. That's enough to wear anyone down. But as the Judge at Europe's Court of Appeals delivered his judgement on Monday, I did notice some ennui - not from dogged old hacks, but from a new generation of pundits.â¦
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A San Francisco judge ordered Microsoft  Corp. MSFT.O to pay lawyers involved in its $1.1 billion  class action settlement $100 million in legal fees, less than  half of the original fees they requested, company officials  said on Thursday.
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Microsoft has made substantial concessions to the European Commission, finally bringing the company into compliance with a&#160;2004 antitrust ruling, the Commission said Monday.&quot;Microsoft has finally agreed to three substantial changes to bring them into compliance with the decision,&quot; the Commission said in a statement.Following the 2004 ruling, Microsoft paid a fine of &#8364;497 million (around $600 million) and published a version of its Windows XP operating system without a bundled media player. The Commission also ordered a third remedy, that Microsoft publish details of the communications protocols used by its server operating system products to communicate with one another and with its desktop clients.The Commission was initially&#160;unhappy with Microsoft&#39;s response&#160;to the third remedy, fining it an additional &#8364;280.5 million last year, but has now reached agreement with the company. One of the sticking points was how open source software developers could make use of the communications protocol information Microsoft published.The first change the company has agreed to is that open source software developers will be able to access and use the interoperability information, as required in the 2004 ruling.Second, the royalties payable for this information will be reduced to a nominal one-off payment of &#8364;10,000 and third, the royalties for a worldwide license, including patents, will be sharply reduced, the Commission said.
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The ruling will state whether Microsoft is free of the sanctions imposed on it by EU for violating anti-trust laws. LUXEMBOURG: A European Union judge told a closed meeting he planned to rule within a month
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Microsoft (MSFT:Nasdaq - news - research) is being sued by several California cities and counties, which accuse the company of charging inflated prices due to its alleged monopoly control of the PC operating system market.
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Microsoft has dropped two outstanding appeals of European antitrust rulings, following the deal struck with the European Commission at the beginning of this week, the company said in a statement Wednesday.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium -- Microsoft Corp. agreed to obey key parts of a 2004 antitrust ruling upheld by an appeals court last month, EU regulators said Monday, cutting royalties for rivals and handing information over to open source developers.
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A group of California cities and counties on Friday filed a class action lawsuit against Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O), saying the world's largest software maker overcharged them for software.