Judge Says Microsoft to Pay &#36;112 Million
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A judge is ordering Microsoft Corp. to pay &#36;112.5 million to attorneys who successfully sued the software maker for monopolizing a segment of California's market.
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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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Head of a technology industry trade group that encouraged aggressive legal action against Microsoft for antitrust violations for years received nearly $10M as part of a settlement with the software giant.
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SBC Communications Inc. on Wednesday said it has agreed to pay $400 million for the use of Microsoft Corp.&#39;s digital TV software platform, in a move seen as helping the telecommunications company defend against competing cable operators.
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Clearing more legal challenges, Microsoft  announced settlements Monday with rival Novell  for &#36;536 million and with a trade organization that had aggressively backed landmark antitrust cases against Microsoft by the U.S. government and European Union.
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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 U.S. government asked a federal judge Wednesday to extend its oversight of Microsoft by an additional two years, with the option to further extend it through 2012 if necessary. Both parties have come to an agreement that progress on portions of the deal has come too slowly.
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Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer received a pay package valued about $1.3 million for fiscal 2007, a year in which profit at the world's largest software maker topped $14 billion, according to documents filed Friday.
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On Thursday Microsoft met the latest deadline to provide information on whether it is complying with a 2004 antitrust ruling.
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An EU committee ruled on Monday that  Microsoft  failed to comply with a landmark antitrust  decision, paving the way for fines of up to 2 million euros  (&#36;2.56 million) a day, a source familiar with the situation  said.
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Chairman Bill Gates each took home just over $900,000 in pay last year, a slight increase from last year, according to documents filed Monday with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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A federal judge prolongs court oversight of the software maker for a further two years. Microsoft had said an extension was unnecessary, while some states wanted Microsoft watched for another five years.
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Craig Conway, the former chief executive of PeopleSoft Inc., will get at least &#36;3.2 million in severance, the company disclosed.
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Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo have agreed to pay a total of $31.5 million to resolve claims that they promoted illegal gambling, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday.
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(InfoWorld) - A U.S. district judge on Tuesday praised the schedule set up in a revamped technical documentation project that's part of the 4-year-old antitrust settlement between Microsoft Corp. and the U.S. government. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, hailed a new plan that would deliver 58 documents related to Microsoft's software communication protocols by Dec. 15, with more documents coming in February, April and May. Kollar-Kotelly in May approvedÂ a two-year extension to parts of her antitrust judgment against Microsoft because of ongoing problems in the technical documentation for Microsoft's software communication protocols. "I hope this approach works," Kollar-Kotelly said during Tuesday's antitrust compliance hearing. "We seem to be on the correct time table." Kollar-Kotelly, in an antitrust settlement approved in November 2002, ordered Microsoft to create the technical documentation so that competing software companies can buy licenses to Microsoft's communications protocols and make products that work with Microsoft software. The judge expressed support for the new plan after numerous delays and past complaints about the quality of technical documentation."We'll have to see if this achieves the [results] that have eluded us so far," she said after Microsoft representatives explained the technical documentation "reset," as they called it. Under the plan, Microsoft delivered 32 technical documents to the court-mandated technical committee overseeing the settlement by Oct. 25, and is on track to deliver another 26 documents by Dec. 15. The technical documentation that's most useful to protocol licensees will be delivered first, Microsoft said. The schedule has Microsoft delivering another 99 technical documents between Feb. 22 and May 29. About 90 days after the initial release of a document, Microsoft will give the technical committee and licensees an online build of the document. In addition, there were 943 identified problems with the current technical documentation as of Oct. 31, up from 835 problems identified as of Sept. 30, according to court records. Microsoft will work on fixing those problems as part of the revamped documentation project, said Robert Muglia, senior vice president of Microsoft's server and tools business. Lawyers for the U.S. Department of Justice and some of the plaintiff states in the antitrust case said the documentation plan seems to be working. But Stephen Houck, a lawyer for the California group of state plaintiffs in the case, noted that hundreds of problems still exist in the current documentation. "While much as been accomplished, there's much left to do," Houck said. Muglia walked the judge through an example of the new technical documentation, and Kollar-Kotelly noted the new version had "a lot more details." "My only wish is that it had been done earlier, so we wouldn't be at this point," she said.
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Software giant Microsoft MSFT.O has   filed an appeal against a 280.5 million euro ($356.4 million)   fine the European Commission imposed in July, holding it defied   a 2004 antitrust ruling.
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Software giant Microsoft  has filed an appeal against a 280.5 million euro ($356.4 million) fine the European Commission imposed in July, holding it defied a 2004 antitrust ruling.