Microsoft, DOJ pressure Massachusetts to back down
crn.com | at | by Mike
Microsoft and the U.S. Department of Justice are putting significant pressure on the last remaining holdouts--Massachusetts and two trade groups--to back off their appeal of the antitrust settlement.
On Wednesday, Microsoft filed two briefs in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit opposing Massachusetts' claim that the appeals court misapplied the law when it approved the settlement between the software giant and the U.S. Department of Justice last November. Microsoft and the DOJ also slammed two industry trade groups for interfering with the case and asked that their proposals for more stringent remedies be tossed out.