Microsoft, Apple stand firm in court
C|Net | at | by Mike
I say that Apple has monopoly in classrooms, it needs healthy competition. Now Apple is going tell Microsoft how to spend Microsoft's money.
Microsoft finally got its day in court, but so did rival Apple Computer. For weeks, critics have battered the software titan for a controversial settlement that would give $1 billion in software, money, services and training to needy schools over the course of five years. Critics have charged that the settlement, which would dispatch more than 100 civil antitrust lawsuits against Microsoft, is anti-competitive. But on Monday, Tom Burt, Microsoft's deputy general counsel, offered his defense to Judge J. Frederick Motz in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland in Baltimore.