Microsoft settlement efforts collapse
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Talks between the Justice Department and Microsoft Corp. in the antitrust case came to an end with no resolution, virtually guaranteeing another year of litigation, which will give Microsoft time to tighten its grip on Internet software, unless Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson imposes some interim restrictions.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 2000
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The row ahead: Microsoft judge faces demands of market and of monopoly law; first blow is from investors, as stock sinks; but firm has plans amid appeals; citing 'an oppressive thumb.'(Microsoft on Trial: The Antitrust Ruling)(Company Business and Marketing)
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Microsoft Corp. has been found guilty of antitrust law violations in a case brought by the US Justice Dept.'s Antitrust Div. and 19 states. US District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's verdict came down on Apr. 3, 2000. Microsoft will appeal the decision and remains open to an out-of-court settlement.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 2000
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Microsoft settlement faces Senate scrutiny
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The Senate Judiciary Committee has set a tentative date of Dec. 12 for a hearing on whether the Justice Department's proposed antitrust settlement with Microsoft will adequately restrain the company's illegal business practices. Testimony will be sought from Justice Department antitrust chief Charles James, state officials and a senior Microsoft executive or attorney. In Europe, Microsoft has waived its right to a hearing to answer European Commission charges that it illegally monopolized the server software market, in hopes of settling. Microsoft is still trying to settle over 100 private antitrust cases, and testimony for and against the settlement of charges that it overcharged for its software is continuing in U.S. District Court in Baltimore.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 2001
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