Microsoft agrees to 18 more months of oversight
InternetNews | at | by Mike
In a filing with the judge presiding over its antitrust case late Thursday, Microsoft agreed with a government request to extension of federal oversight by another 18 months.
Combined with a two-year extension already . granted to the Department of Justice last year, that will take the oversight of Microsoft's behaviors ? particularly in providing accurate documentation to licensees ? out to May 12, 2011. Otherwise, the oversight would have expired on November 12, 2009.
As with the last extension, the latest extension request arose from Microsoft's slowness in providing interoperability documentation to licensees, which was mandated in the original consent decree in order to provide a level playing field for competitors.