Microsoft: No stranger to legal tussles
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Given that Microsoft is far and away the biggest supplier of computer operating systems, it was inevitable the firm would come up against antitrust investigations.
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Even after more than a decade embroiled in clashes with government antitrust regulators, Microsoft had managed to keep its engineering hands free to design products the way it chose.
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Microsoft signed a rare deal with an open source software group, taking a step towards meeting sanctions imposed by the European Commission for antitrust violations.
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Microsoft and the open-source community continue to have a wary, friend-or-foe relationship, marked both by the company's efforts to ingratiate itself with open-source advocates and by its continued patent infringement claims.
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Microsoft has some serious questions to answer....
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Legal wrangling over competing hard drive technologies continues.
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Nearly all its customers will be indemnified against claims that their use of Microsoft software infringed on any intellectual property claims.
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By Dwight Silverman, Houston Chronicle  Dec. 19--If you talk to a hard-core techie who's a user of the Linux operating system or one of the zealots who worship Apple's Macintosh, you won't hear many nice things said about Microsoft.
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Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) is expanding its indemnification program for Windows and other software products in order to shield users from legal claims and patent
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Microsoft seems to not have learned much from the antitrust suits brought against it.
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WASHINGTON  - Microsoft received a bloody nose in its legal battle to suspend European sanctions, but the financial hit is likely no more than a glancing blow, analysts said.
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It's no surprise that Symantec and Adobe are wary of Microsoft bundling its own security software and electronic document format in Windows Vista, but the companies had yet to lodge official complaints about the operating system until now.
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Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O is expanding  its indemnification program for Windows and other software  products in order to shield users from legal claims and patent  disputes, the world's largest software maker said on Tuesday.
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SEATTLE  - Microsoft Corp.  filed sevenlawsuits against senders of spam, or unsolicited e-mail, fortransmitting messages without labeling them as sexuallyexplicit content, the world's largest software maker said onThursday.
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In the rapid-fire pace of the technology business, Microsoft&#39;s successful, though illegal, campaign to thwart competition in the market for Web browsing software during the 1990s seems to be ancient history.
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Linux users don't believe claims by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer that the open-source OS infringes on Microsoft's intellectual property. In fact, Ballmer's comments are making them mad.
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Unless the European court that upheld European sanctions against Microsoft demands different remedies than US courts did, it won&#39;t do much to level the playing field for open-source products, one open-source advocate says.