Microsoft Deadline in Calif. Settlement Extended
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Consumers and businesses in California  will have until Jan. 8 to claim their part of a $1.1 billion  class action settlement with Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O after the  California Superior Court awarded an extension, plaintiff's  attorneys said on Thursday.
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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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(InfoWorld) - The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Microsoft filed formal paperwork Wednesday to extend part of an antitrust judgment against the company for at least two years. The extension of U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly's November 2002 antitrust settlement would give Microsoft more time to complete work on technical documentation for licensees of its communications protocols. The DOJ and Microsoft filed a joint request Wednesday for Kollar-Kotelly to approve the extension, which the DOJ proposed in May. The antitrust order had been scheduled to expire in November 2007. If the judge approves the two-year extension, the DOJ and 17 state plaintiffs in the antitrust case can ask for an additional three-year extension if they still have complaints about Microsoft documentation. Microsoft has said it will not oppose a second extension. Under the settlement, Microsoft is required to license the communication protocols to other IT vendors interested in developing server software that works with Microsoft's Windows operating system. But as of May, hundreds of bugs in the technical documentation remained. A technical committee working with the antitrust plaintiffs identified 575 bugs in the technical documentation as of Feb. 8. By March 16, Microsoft had whittled the bugs identified by the technical committee down to 307, but the number of high-priority bugs grew from 68 to 71 in that period. By May 8, the number of high-priority bugs with a 60-day deadline grew to 79, and the total number of bugs identified by the technical committee was 414.
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A group of states led by California asked a federal judge Tuesday to extend court oversight of Microsoft Corp.'s business practices for five more years.
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Court oversight of Microsoft Corp.'s market power, which began in 2002 after a landmark antitrust settlement, has been extended two years.
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The Nasdaq stock market extend Dell a deadline for filing late reports with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the company announced.
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Microsoft Corp. said in court Thursday that it had been prepared during settlement talks to share more software code with its rivals than the European Union ultimately demanded.
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Deadline extended while the software maker waits for a ruling in Justice Department's antitrust case.
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Victim's fight could make legal history by extending the deadline for sufferers to seek compensation.
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SAN FRANCISCO  - Business software maker  Oracle Corp.  said on Thursday it extended again its $7.7 billion hostile tender offer for PeopleSoft Inc. , to Sept. 10, as it awaits a U.S. District Court judge's ruling on whether the takeover attempt can move forward.
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Despite numerous out-of-court settlements with various state governments around the country, it appears Microsoft&#39;s legal woes aren&#39;t over yet.
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The award for fees and costs comes in a case in which Microsoft agreed to allocate $1.1 billion for California consumers. By Associated Press.
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California asked the federal judge  overseeing Microsoft's  antitrust oversight agreement  to extend a section of it by three years to 2012.
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Google Inc. is pressing for an extension to the U.S. Justice Department's oversight of Microsoft Corp.'s business practices, most of which is set to expire in November, according to a court filing Monday.
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The European Commission said that Microsoft has met a key deadline in its antitrust standoff with the US software giant, staving off the threat of further fines.
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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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European Union regulators on Monday  extended the deadline for their inquiry into Web search leader  Google's proposed purchase of rival DoubleClick to November 13  from October 26.