One state standing in Microsoft antitrust saga
SeattlePI | at | by Mike
The Justice Department and 19 states have made peace with Microsoft over its monopolistic misdeeds. But Tom Reilly is still on the company's case. The Massachusetts attorney general is the lone public-sector holdout who has refused to settle with the company over allegations that it tried to crush competitors with monopolistic tactics.
Reilly says he is defending consumers and his state's 3,000 software companies. Some, however, consider the attorney general's heel digging on Microsoft expensive folly, maybe even political grandstanding.