Microsoft asks U.S. Courts to force rivals to surrender docu
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Microsoft is asking U.S. courts to compel Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM, Oracle and Novell Inc. to hand over correspondence with EU regulators on Microsoft's antitrust battle in Europe.
It filed papers Friday with federal courts in New York, Massachusetts and California, saying they could order U.S. citizens to provide evidence for use in foreign legal action.
Microsoft said it needs to see these documents to understand how an independent expert came to write reports highly critical of the company's efforts to comply with a 2004 EU antitrust order.