DOJ keeping tabs on Longhorn development
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U.S. antitrust enforcers have started to track Microsoft's development work on Longhorn, the successor to Windows XP, in a move to ensure that the vendor won't violate the final judgment in the government's antitrust case.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and several U.S. states involved in the case are particularly interested in any changes that Microsoft might make in Longhorn related to default settings and "middleware," or applications associated with the operating system, such as Web browser and media player software, according to a legal filing on Friday.