Legal Questions Dog Microsoft Acquistion
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Anti-spyware company had granted another company rights to its software.
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Is Microsoft's offer too low, too high, or just right?
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Less than three months after Microsoft lost a landmark antitrust case in Europe, a Norwegian software company filed a new complaint Thursday, challenging the software giantâs bundling of its Web browser with its Windows operating system.
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After months of hearings, Microsoft loses EU court battle and must strip Media Player, share code. Also: Federal judge refuses spammer's guilty plea.... Mobile companies dispute evidence that phone radiation damages DNA.... and more.
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Opinion: Unbundling integrated pieces of Windows just might be the bitter pill that Microsoft needs. There&#39;s no Christmas present that Microsoft officials want more than the European Union&#39;s remedies to be
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InfoWorld - SANTA CLARA, CALIF. -- Noting two evolving areas of software licensing, Microsoft is pondering how to license when multiple instances of an application are run on a single computer, but is not eyeing a plan for utility-based computing, in which charges are based on individual usage.
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Microsoft&#39;s big move into the anti-spyware business has hit an immediate speed bump, with questions swirling around a Florida company&#39;s claim that it co-owns the Giant AntiSpyware codeâand all future definition updatesâthat Microsoft purchased earlier
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Software giant's deal with Sun has raised some questions.
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Mapuche Indians in Chile are  trying to take global software giant Microsoft  to  court in a legal battle which raises the question of whether  anyone can ever "own" the language they speak.
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Plans by Microsoft Corp to charge royalties on a library of patents are looking uncertain after the US Patent and Trademark Office rejected a key software patent claimed by the company.
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Legal wrangling over competing hard drive technologies continues.
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The Department of Justice and state attorneys general are raising questions about changes Microsoft wants to make in the schedule set out for its antitrust compliance.
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After EU antitrust ruling, company questions whether Microsoft's patent arrangement is compatible with open-source licensing.
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REDMOND, Wash., Dec. 12  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --      What:     Press conference about an enterprise agreement between the              companies   (Logo:  http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20000822/MSFTLOGO )     Who:      Microsoft Corp.
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Like many, I was pretty shocked by the recent Microsoft-EU deal to settle the long-running investigation into interoperability issues.  This was not so much because of the way Microsoft has used every kind of delaying tactic it could before eventually agreeing (for the nth time) to try harder in the future.  My real dismay was provoked by the gap between appearance and reality â a chasm that I think bodes ill for the future of open source. read more
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LUXEMBOURG -- The war of words over Microsoft Corp.'s business practices continued at a Luxembourg court on Friday with the its opponents arguing that unless the company offers a version its operating system without Windows Media Player, Microsoft will extend its quasi-monopoly in the PC market over the digital media sector.
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The acquisition by Microsoft and Time Warner of a company with a significant portfolio of patents covering digital rights management technologies generates scrutiny by European antitrust regulators. The main focus of the investigation: Microsoft. By Wendy M. Grossman.