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Justice Vs. Microsoft




Failure to publish a workable guide for letting other companies' server software work with Windows has Microsoft in trouble on both sides of the Atlantic. The Justice Department is extending its legal oversight of the company by two years, until November 2009, pending approval by a federal judge. Microsoft will rewrite a technical manual for Windows' communications protocols that Justice has criticized as sloppy and dense. The requirement stems from a 2002 antitrust settlement. European regulators also have ordered a rewrite of the manual; Microsoft's appealing that verdict and offering source code to help.



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