Californians to soon get $1.1 bln from Microsoft
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California consumers and  businesses will soon receive $1.1 billion in delayed payouts  from Microsoft Corp.  to settle antitrust claims  against the world's biggest software maker, lawyers in the case  said on Wednesday.
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The number of U.S. Internet telephony subscribers is expected to surge to 1 million by the end of 2004.
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(InfoWorld) - The latest status report on Microsoft Corp.'s compliance with an antitrust settlement in the U.S. has cleared the company of a separate accusation of not complying with orders to disclose information to make its products more interoperable. An expert witness in a class-action suit filed in Iowa, Comes v. Microsoft, testified that the company had not documented APIs (application programming interfaces) as required by the 2002 settlement with the Justice Department and states. The plaintiffs from the 2002 settlement met with the expert witness in the Iowa case and examined material, concluding that "there is no evidence that Microsoft has not fully disclosed the APIs." The conclusion was tucked away in the report, published on Tuesday, by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, which monitors Microsoft's compliance with the settlement. Microsoft reached a settlement in February in the Comes case, filed in Polk County District Court, after plaintiffs argued the company overcharged them for software. In April, a judge gave preliminary approval to a settlement that calls for Microsoft to pay up to US$179.95 million to individual users and businesses that bought Microsoft software between May 18, 1994, and June 30, 2006. The case is due for a final review on Aug. 31. If approved, eligible Iowans will be able to receive $16 for OSes; $29 for Office, $25 for Excel and $10 for Word. Individual users will get cash, while volume buyers will get vouchers for products from Microsoft, its competitors and others. Microsoft estimates the cost of Iowa settlement, as well as settlements reached with Arkansas and Wisconsin in March, plus an outstanding case in Mississippi, could cost the company between $1.7 billion and $1.9 billion, according to an April 26 filing with the U.S. Security and Exchange Commission. Â
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Cable company Comcast and Microsoft announced a deal Monday that will offer the software giant&#39;s new digital cable software platform to more than 1 million homes beginning next week.
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Thousands of California companies and residents could lose a share of the $1.1 billion antitrust settlement against Microsoft Corp.
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SAN JOSE, Calif.  -- Seeking to be more competitive with Microsoft Corp...
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Microsoft expects to take an earnings charge of more than $1 billion related to expenses it will incur fixing faulty Xbox 360 machines.
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Microsoft said Wednesday it would pay $240 million for a small slice of Facebook in a deal that values the red-hot social networking website at $15 billion.
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Secure Computing will pay a total of $1 million to settle Washington state's first spyware case.
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BHP Billiton&#39;s Australian investors will collect $1.5 billion from a buyback announced by the global miner yesterday. But the move will leave foreigners with a stronger presence on the BHP share register because they can&#39;t participate.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- A judge is ordering Microsoft Corp. 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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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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Hewlett-Packard Co., a maker of computers, printers and information technology systems for businesses, said Monday that it bought back about $1.
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Microsoft bid $1.2 billion for Fast Search & Transfer, which specializes in high-end Internet search and business intelligence systems now used by many major companies.
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Company will begin production on sub-1-inch hard drive later this year.
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San Francisco - PeopleSoft Inc. and International Business Machines Corp. will spend $1 billion in the next five years to develop and sell business software.
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Following a flurry of Web reports, Microsoft confirmed Monday that the much-anticipated Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system will ship today to manufacturers along with Windows Server 2008.