Massachusetts attacks Microsoft's search plans
WinNetMag | at | by Mike
Massachusetts, the lone state left standing among the so-called nonsettling states from Microsoft's US antitrust trial, this week again raised concerns that the software giant has been undeterred by its consent decree. In a filing with the US District Court for the District of Columbia this week, Massachusetts attorney general Thomas Reilly said that Microsoft's November 2002 consent decree with the US government had no restored competition, and thus wasn't working. He also noted that the state was continuing its investigation into Microsoft's search engine moves, in a bid to stop the company from killing Google.com, as it has with countless other competitors, including Netscape in the late 1990's.