After Microsoft had difficulty complying with some antitrust sanctions imposed in 2002, a federal court judge extended some provisions into 2009. The software giant is making good on providing more thorough documentation, but the Technical Committee (TC) charged with reviewing it is scrutinizing it more closely in anticipation of Windows 7′s release.
Federal court judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly decided last year to extend the documentation provisions of the 2002 antitrust consent decree agreement placed on Microsoft. Through the years, Microsoft has either not provided sufficient documentation, not met deadlines, or made changes to reporting schedules before discussing them with the committee, so Kollar-Kotelly’s extension keeps the TC in place into 2009.
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