US court rejects Microsoft, govt requests
Reuters | at | by Mike
A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected Microsoft Corp.'s request to re-examine part of its ruling in the landmark antitrust case against the company and also declined to speed the case back to a lower court, a move sought by the U.S. government. The decision leaves the case on schedule to have a portion reheard in U.S. District Court no earlier than mid-August. Microsoft had asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on July 18 to re-hear a portion of the ruling that found the company illegally "commingled'' computer code of its Internet Explorer browser and the Windows operating system to protect its monopoly power. Opposing Microsoft, government prosecutors had argued that the case should be moved quickly in the wake of a June 28 appeals court ruling that Microsoft abused its monopoly in the market for personal computer operating systems.