Will Microsoft Antitrust Oversight Be Extended?

Seven states have banded together to challenge Microsoft . California led the charge in seeking to extend the government’s antitrust oversight of Microsoft until 2012. That would mean adding five years to a federal court’s original judgment.Microsoft reached its antitrust settlement with the federal government and 17 states in 2002. The oversight is scheduled to expire November 12. But California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown filed a report in late August questioning the effectiveness of the Microsoft consent decree.

Brown has publicly stated the decree has not lived up to its goal of increasing market competition. Connecticut, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Massachusetts, and the District of Columbia joined Brown in filing the report. Now, the case is in the judge’s hands.

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