What's next in the antitrust saga?
SeattlePI | at | by Mike
For five years -- or longer, if the judge says so -- Microsoft must:
- Lift illegal licensing requirements for computer makers.
- Stop restricting what icons, menus or services computer makers put on their products.
- Avoid retaliating, or even threatening to retaliate, against computer makers that sell PCs using or promoting non-Microsoft software.
- Within three months, make available a wide range of Communications Protocols, which are small pieces of software that link Windows-based products with Microsoft servers.
- Appoint a Compliance Committee made up of three board members who aren't past or current employees.