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U.S. Says Microsoft Not Moving Quickly Enough to Adhere to Antitrust Settlement

A Bloomberg News article, via The New York Times, reports that:

Microsoft is not complying quickly enough with its antitrust settlement with the government, the Bush administration said on Monday.

In a court filing, Justice Department lawyers said Microsoft was falling behind on providing technical information mandated by the settlement.

It was the government's strongest show of impatience with the company since the agreement was reached in 2001. In October, the judge overseeing the settlement, Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of Federal District Court in Washington, questioned the pace of Microsoft's efforts to develop tools to help rivals create software that runs smoothly on the Windows operating system. A month later, the judge said the company was making progress and seemed to be "back on track."

posted by Fergie @ 1/24/2006 09:50:00 AM