Microsoft Judge Skeptical
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LUXEMBOURG, Oct. 1 -- A European judge today cast a skeptical eye on whether Microsoft Corp. should be forced to create two versions of its Windows operating system, one with its program for playing digital music and videos and one without.
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A jury's $1.52 billion judgment against Microsoft hangs a sudden, unexpected cloud over MP3. This could be the opening open-source advocates have been waiting for. By Eliot Van Buskirk and Evan Hansen.
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Manager of an antispam blacklist was hit with a multimillion dollar judgment, but the order may not be enforceable.
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A judge in a major EU anti-trust case against Microsoft calls a sudden meeting after high-profile departures.
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Makers of security software question the thoroughness and accuracy of evaluations.
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WASHINGTON--A federal appeals court on Thursday wrestled with whether to overturn or uphold a lower court&#39;s $565 million judgment against Microsoft in the biggest patent dispute in Web history.
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A U.S. judge said today she favors an agreement on desktop search between Microsoft and antitrust plaintiffs.
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Microsoft, which will on Monday learn whether a top European Union court has annulled the landmark 2004 antitrust ruling against the US software developer, is warning technology rivals they should be careful what they wish for.
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Microsoft&#39;s compliance with a&#160;U.S. antitrust settlement&#160;will remain under court supervision for another two years, in part because the company delayed producing documentation required by the court, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia extended the court&#39;s supervision through Nov. 12, 2009, writing that the 2002 settlement had not fully taken effect. Several U.S. states involved in the case had sought a five-year extension, despite opposition from the Department of Justice.As part of the settlement, Microsoft is required to document information on communication protocols, making it easier for other software manufacturers to create products that work well with the Windows OS.The documentation has been a sticking point between the company and the government. Microsoft has been ordered to rewrite the documentation, which was supposed to have been complete by February 2003, to make it clearer.In her ruling, Kollar-Kotelly blamed Microsoft. &quot;Although the technical documentation project is complex and novel, it is clear, at least to the Court, that Microsoft is culpable for this inexcusable delay,&quot; she wrote.But she also wrote that the company had been &quot;overwhelmingly cooperative&quot; in the years after the antitrust settlement, and that this latest extension should not be viewed as a sanction.Microsoft will continue to comply with the antitrust ruling and has built its latest operating system, Vista, to comply with the rules, the company said.&quot;We are gratified that the court recognized our extensive efforts to work cooperatively with the large number of government agencies involved,&quot; said Brad Smith, Microsoft&#39;s general counsel and senior vice president.&#160;
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A European Court judge today pressed Microsoft to explain how it would suffer irreparable harm if it follows EU orders to share technology with competitors, but he offered no clues as to how he will rule.
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A European judge must sort through competing ideas on the balance between intellectual property and fairness to decide whether antitrust penalties against Microsoft (Quote, Chart) should be suspended.
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A judge in a San Diego court late Thursday dismissed one of several patent claims Alcatel-LucentÂ has made against Microsoft in several high-profile cases against the vendor, but that does not mean the software company is out of the woods yet.
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A lawyer for AT&amp;T argued before a skeptical Supreme Court yesterday that Microsoft Corp. is violating one of its patents when it sends its Windows software overseas to be copied and placed on personal computers.
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While it looked like Google could walk away from a potentially damaging infringement case against its browser-based Toolbar, a district court judge found the reasoning behind a full Google victory may have been flawed.
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Blaming Microsoft for much of the failure of the 2002 antitrust consent degree between itself and state and federal regulators, U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly threw on another two years of monitoring. And she might not be done yet.
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A judge said it would be too costly to allow voters skeptical of electronic voting systems to opt for paper ballots.
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The European judge deciding whether to suspend the European Union's landmark antitrust ruling against Microsoft Corp. pushed the EU to justify its sweeping order &#151; questioning Friday whether the move would rein in the U.S. software giant or raise costs for others.