Court Approves Microsoft Deal With U.S.

[SilvrDrgn]

WASHINGTON - A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday approved the landmark antitrust settlement Microsoft Corp. negotiated with the Justice Department, setting aside objections by Massachusetts that sanctions in the agreement were inadequate against the world's largest software company.

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[Matt_H]

And what will this settlement do for the benefit of consumers? Oh yeah, NOTHING. When are people going to learn that Microsoft will stop at nothing to achieve total domination of the electronics market?

Kudos to Tom Reily, though. At least he tried.

Are there any more levels of the courts that he can appeal to?

[DethKnight]

just proves beyond the shadow of a doubt, that in USA it is entirely possible to become
*-Above The Law-*
as Bill Gates definitely now is

[adolescent]

Some of the terms, if I read correctly, were really rediculous.  Releasing the source code for the browser?  Allowing the removal of parts of the OS?  I don't see how these provisions could have helped consumers at all.

[Waccoon]

I... think I'll stay out of this thread.

[weirdami]

@adolescent

Allowing the removal of parts of the OS?

That one does. IE is "part of the OS". It's impossible to remove IE from Windows because IE is no different than Windows Explorer. The only difference is where you enter the program. It would be nice if when I'm using a web browser, the directory structure doesn't appear in the location bar and if I'm looking through the directories, a web page doesn't pop up and the type-path-here thing doesn't turn into an http:// thing.