Microsoft agrees to ease Windows license terms
Reuters | at | by Mike
Microsoft said on Monday it has agreed to cut the cost and ease some restrictions it placed on competitors seeking to view the inner workings of the Windows program under last year's antitrust settlement with the government. Following complaints from some rivals, Microsoft said it would make it cheaper and easier for other software companies to access key pieces of computer code that their server software needs to function properly with the Windows operating system.
The changes could be helpful to companies such as Sun Microsystems Inc. SUNW.O that are battling Microsoft in the market for software that runs servers, the powerful machines that manage computer networks.