Microsoft and Alacritech on Wednesday reached a settlement in their legal dispute over a technology designed to accelerate TCP/IP based networks.
In March, the Federal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals issued an injunction barring Microsoft Corp. from including the technology—code-named Chimney—in an upcoming release of Longhorn, the next-generation version of Windows.
At the time, Alacritech Inc. requested an injunction that would have covered Longhorn itself, effectively stopping the operating system in its tracks, arguing that Microsoft's development of Chimney infringed on Alacritech's patents.
Instead, the court released a limited injunction that barred Microsoft from using the Chimney technology.
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