Microsoft Makes Offer to Holdouts
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For the nine states and the District of Columbia still pursuing the antitrust case against Microsoft Corp., the company has the following special, limited-time offer:
Join in the settlement signed last week by the Justice Department and nine other states and the company will pay all litigation costs they have run up so far, including attorneys fees. The states have 10 days to accept the offer.
A Microsoft spokesman described the offer as a formality, but it is the latest in a series of moves by the company to woo states that declined to sign on to the settlement deal. Although several of those states left open the possibility that they would agree to the deal after further study, so far they are pushing ahead with preparations for court hearings on how the company should be penalized for breaking antitrust laws.