Seven States Extend Microsoft Antitrust Judgment

Technical Writing Geek writes "A number of states have moved to extend antitrust judgments against Microsoft until the year 2012. California, Connecticut, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the District of Columbia are all contributing to the decision, and have released a report on the factors that lead to the extension. 'The report laments the state of OEM web browser bundling, saying that no major OEM currently distributes a browser other than Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE). This is important due to the rise of new middleware platforms (such as Adobe's AIR and Microsoft's own Silverlight) that can create rich, OS-independent, web-based applications.' The report is slightly self-contradictory, but raises some valid points."

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they're no stranger to that idea

[User 956]

A number of states have moved to extend antitrust judgments against Microsoft

Ah yes, the old "embrace and extend" has come full circle.

Boy...

[JK_the_Slacker]

What with this and the releases of Gutsy Gibbon and Leopard, this is turning out to be a bad month for furniture.

Re:Just what I want -

[nschubach]

Microsoft would never do that, just look at DirectX...oh shoot, you might be right.