Microsoft antitrust case update
C|Net | at | by Mike
Microsoft is marshalling a frontal assault on opponents and state trustbusters in its antitrust battle, disclosing plans to bring Chairman Bill Gates and CEO Steve Ballmer to testify at a remedy hearing and accusing AOL Time Warner and Oracle of helping to draft a harsh remedy proposal.
The Redmond, Wash.-based company fired a barrage of legal briefs Friday, some expected and others not by the court. But in all of them Microsoft made clear the only acceptable resolution to the nearly four-year-old antitrust trial is a settlement deal cut in November with the Justice Department and nine states. Nine other states and the District of Columbia rejected the deal and have returned to litigation.