For those that like their long weekends peppered with a small legal sauce,
Buy Office 2010, here are a few hyperlinks:Eolas and Microsoft settle patent case; Terms not however disclosedThe abridged history: Eolas claimed Microsoft;s Online Explorer violated its patent for accessing interactive content material on Internet pages. Microsoft was ordered to spend $500 million (before it appealed) and agreed to change the way in which IE dealt with embedded multimedia content material. Eolas introduced on August thirty that the pair had occur to terms. No word thus far on what the settlement terms are (or what this may imply to the long term of IE).
Did the Consent Decree curb Microsoft;s anticompetitive conduct? States are splitCalifornia and a handful of other states advised the judge overseeing Microsoft;s compliance using the terms of its antitrust settlement with the U.S. federal government the Consent Decree has accomplished little to curb Microsoft;s anticompetitive behavior. A group of other states that were part of the government;s case against Microsoft disagreed. The following regularly scheduled oversight hearing in the matter is September 11.