Microsoft back in court to defend antitrust pact
Reuters | at | by Mike
Attorneys for Microsoft head back to federal court on Tuesday to defend a landmark antitrust settlement from a last-ditch challenge from Massachusetts' attorney general and other critics. The two sides will square off before a panel of judges in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, with critics of the settlement arguing it should be overturned and stricter sanctions imposed on the world's largest software maker.
Microsoft will likely counter that the dissenters are extremists out of step with the courts, the Justice Department and 20 other states, all of whom have endorsed the settlement.
"Only Massachusetts continues to pursue different relief that would benefit certain of Microsoft's competitors, but not consumers," Microsoft said in a reply brief.