Microsoft Corporation or often just MS is an American multinational computer technology corporation with 79,000 employees in 102 countries and global annual revenue of US $51.12 billion as of 2007. It develops, manufactures, licenses and supports a wide range of software products for computing devices. Headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA, its best selling products are the Microsoft Windows operating system and the Microsoft Office suite of productivity software. These products have prominent positions in the desktop computer market; with market share estimates as high as 90% or more as of 2003 for Microsoft Office and 2006 for Microsoft Windows. One of Bill Gates' key visions is "to get a workstation running our software onto every desk and eventually in every home".
Microsoft will be under the eye of the federal government for at least two more years regarding its famous antitrust case settlement. The U.S. government will continue to watch over Microsoft's compliance with the terms of its famous antitrust case settlement for at least two more years. Court supervision of Microsoft's compliance with a U.S. antitrust settlement will continue until November 12, 2009, ruled federal district judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly on Tuesday. This ruling came in response to a filing by 10 states, including California and New York, to extend oversight until 2012.
Such information makes it easier for other software manufacturers to create products that work well with Microsoft's operating systems. The court decree that settled the landmark U.S. antitrust case against Microsoft in 2002 covers Microsoft's ties to computer makers, how the company's software works with other types of software and enforcement to ensure that Microsoft does not repeat past practices.
"The Court's extension should not be viewed as a sanction against Microsoft; to the contrary, the Court commends Microsoft for its willingness to cooperate with the Plaintiffs in this action and in United States v. Microsoft in negotiating solutions to issues as they have arisen throughout the past five years,”. Nevertheless, after more than five years, communications protocols are still not available to licensees "in a certifiably complete, accurate, and useable form," she wrote. The ruling is intended to give Microsoft time to accomplish that task.
The federal judge overseeing the company's landmark settlement on Tuesday extended by two years the term of the consent decree, a multifaceted set of remedies meant to put competitors on equal footing with Microsoft and stop it from abusing its monopoly in computer operating systems.
Most of the provisions were to expire last November, five years after the settlement was reached among Microsoft, the U.S. Department of Justice and 17 states plus the District of Columbia. Had the judge let them end, it would have largely closed the book on a major era in the company's antitrust history, even as Microsoft faces greater scrutiny in Europe.
One key remedy of the consent decree required Microsoft to document and share with competitors so-called communications protocols technical information needed to help non-Windows servers work with Windows computers as well as Windows servers do.
By holding back that information, Microsoft was found to have illegally leveraged its Windows monopoly to gain power in an adjacent market. Early on, Microsoft dragged its feet in providing that documentation by not devoting enough resources to the effort. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, in a summary of her 78-page ruling Tuesday, wrote that the parties to the settlement also referred to as a consent decree anticipated that the documentation would be available by February 2003, at the latest.
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Microsoft will be under the eye of the federal government for at least two more years regarding its famous antitrust case settlement. The U.S. government will continue to watch over Microsoft's compliance with the terms of its famous antitrust case settlement for at least two more years. Court supervision of Microsoft's compliance with a U.S. antitrust settlement will continue until November 12, 2009, ruled federal district judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly on Tuesday. This ruling came in response to a filing by 10 states, including California and New York, to extend oversight until 2012.
Such information makes it easier for other software manufacturers to create products that work well with Microsoft's operating systems. The court decree that settled the landmark U.S. antitrust case against Microsoft in 2002 covers Microsoft's ties to computer makers, how the company's software works with other types of software and enforcement to ensure that Microsoft does not repeat past practices.
"The Court's extension should not be viewed as a sanction against Microsoft; to the contrary, the Court commends Microsoft for its willingness to cooperate with the Plaintiffs in this action and in United States v. Microsoft in negotiating solutions to issues as they have arisen throughout the past five years,”. Nevertheless, after more than five years, communications protocols are still not available to licensees "in a certifiably complete, accurate, and useable form," she wrote. The ruling is intended to give Microsoft time to accomplish that task.
The federal judge overseeing the company's landmark settlement on Tuesday extended by two years the term of the consent decree, a multifaceted set of remedies meant to put competitors on equal footing with Microsoft and stop it from abusing its monopoly in computer operating systems.
Most of the provisions were to expire last November, five years after the settlement was reached among Microsoft, the U.S. Department of Justice and 17 states plus the District of Columbia. Had the judge let them end, it would have largely closed the book on a major era in the company's antitrust history, even as Microsoft faces greater scrutiny in Europe.
One key remedy of the consent decree required Microsoft to document and share with competitors so-called communications protocols technical information needed to help non-Windows servers work with Windows computers as well as Windows servers do.
By holding back that information, Microsoft was found to have illegally leveraged its Windows monopoly to gain power in an adjacent market. Early on, Microsoft dragged its feet in providing that documentation by not devoting enough resources to the effort. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, in a summary of her 78-page ruling Tuesday, wrote that the parties to the settlement also referred to as a consent decree anticipated that the documentation would be available by February 2003, at the latest.
For more details on Microsoft Under Antitrust Scrutiny Until 2009 visit www.halfvalue.com and www.halfvalue.co.uk For more information on books visit www.Lookbookstores.com
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