Microsoft highlights antitrust progress
C|Net | at | by Mike
Microsoft is seeking to underline the trust in its antitrust settlement. Though there was no legal requirement for it to do so, the software titan on Wednesday issued a progress report on the work it's been doing to comply with a proposed agreement it reached last year with the Justice Department and nine states.
In its seven-page filing, Microsoft pointed to several milestones it had reached in accordance with the consent decree: Tuesday's release of application programming interfaces, the recent disclosure of Windows communications protocols, and the introduction of a new control into Windows 2000 and Windows XP that will let PC makers keep middleware such as the Internet Explorer browser off the software desktop.