U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly extended portions of the landmark antitrust consent decree between Microsoft Corp. and state and federal antitrust regulators for another two years, until Nov. 12, 2009.
Eleven states, lead by New York and California, had asked that the monitoring of Microsoft's business practices continue for five years, until late 2012. Microsoft, on the other hand, had repeatedly argued that no further oversight was necessary.
Kollar-Kotelly explained the reasoning behind the extension in a six-page summary of her 78-page opinion, which she issued late Tuesday from her District of Columbia court. "The provisions of the Final Judgments have not yet had the chance to operate together as the comprehensive remedy the Court and the parties envisioned when the Final Judgments were entered," she said.
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