In a filing last night (PDF, 26 pages), California and several other states asked U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly to extend most of Microsoft's U.S. antitrust settlement for another five years. The filing formalizes a request that the states previously outlined in court.
In arguing for the extension, the filing cites a number of concerns, including the fear that Microsoft could use the next version of Windows to "tilt the playing field" toward Silverlight, its new Adobe Flash competitor.
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