Microsoft Foe Wins in Settlement
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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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(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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Microsoft has agreed to pay Novell $536 million in cash in order to settle a longstanding antitrust dispute regarding the company's NetWare operating system. The two companies, however, could not reach a resolution regarding Microsoft's alleged predatory tactics against WordPerfect. Meanwhile, Microsoft has made nice with the CCIA to avoid further antitrust complaints and give Redmond more lobbying power.
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Microsoft paid $20m(Â£10.6m) to one of its fiercest critics, the Computer and Communications Industry Association, after the group dropped out of an EU anti-trust case against the software giant, it emerged today.
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Microsoft agrees to comply with the European Commission's 2004 anti-monopoly ruling against it.
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WHAT MICROSOFT DID: Paid &#36;536 million cash to rival Novell Inc. to settle potential antitrust complaints over Microsoft's alleged actions toward Novell's Netware operating system, which competes with Windows software. Paid a smaller amount to the Washington-based Computer and Communications Industry Association, a trade group.
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Microsoft Corp on Monday announced antitrust settlements with Novell Inc. and the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA), ending years of legal wrangling.
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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's market.
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The antitrust settlement between MicrosoftÂ and the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) announced earlier this month included a payment of $9.75 million to the CCIA's president, according to a report published Wednesday.
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A former Microsoft Corp. worker pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to participating in a software sales scheme with three others that defrauded the company of more than &#36;32 million.
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Microsoft has agreed to settle a multimillion dollar lawsuit brought by thousands of Iowa consumers and businesses who say the company's anticompetitive practices forced them to pay inflated prices for software including Microsoft's Windows, Word and Excel.
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Microsoft Corp. and Eolas Technologies Inc. have settled their long-running legal battle, according to a letter sent to Eolas shareholders.
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Blog: Long-running dispute between the server and software company and the smaller Java hardware maker ends with an undisclosed settlement, and both sides say they're content.
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SEATTLE/NEW YORK: Microsoft has said it will pay $536m to Novell to settle an antitrust suit. It also resolved a 10-year dispute with a computer trade group.
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Undisclosed payment over rights violation claim Microsoft has settled a long-running patent infringement suit with Eolas and the University of California in a case which has been running since 1999. Microsoft will make an undisclosed payment to Eolas.â¦
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Microsoft&#39;s settlement with Sun Microsystems includes a provision explicitly preserving Microsoft&#39;s right to sue licensees of a free alternative to its dominant Microsoft Office software.
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A US jury found that Microsoft infringed audio patents held by the world's biggest software maker Alcatel-Lucent.   Microsoft has been ordered to pay Pounds 778m in damages, however the firm says it may appeal the ruling.   It says the verdict is unsupported by the law or the facts.