Microsoft Corp is still finding communications protocols that it should be licensing to rivals almost five years after it was ordered to do so following the US antitrust decision.
The details are revealed in the latest joint status report, which outlines the US Department of Justice’s concerns that the company is still finding protocols that should have been included in the Microsoft Communications Protocol Program but were “inadvertently overlooked”.
“Plaintiffs… are particularly troubled that at this late hour in the program Microsoft is still discovering protocols that should have been included in the original documentation,” it stated, while also noting concerns that Microsoft has not been able to meet its original schedule.
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