DOJ details opposition to Microsoft judgment extension
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
A five-year extension of large portions of the U.S. antitrust judgment against Microsoft isn't needed and the reasons a group of states have given for continuing oversight won't fix the problems they still see, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a court brief filed Friday.
The DOJ's 12-page brief opposes an extension of the antitrust judgment, signed by the company and regulators in 2002, until November 2012. A group of states has asked U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly to extend the antitrust judgment, but the DOJ has said it would oppose an extension.