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In its 2008 Annual Report, Microsoft stated: Lawsuits brought by the U.S. Department of Justice, 18 states, and the District of Columbia in two separate actions were resolved through a Consent Decree that took effect in 2001 and a Final Judgment entered in 2002. These proceedings imposed various constraints on our Windows operating system ...
(Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission have reached a deal that clears the way for potential antitrust investigations into the dominant roles that Microsoft ...
(Reuters) -The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has opened a broad antitrust investigation into Microsoft, including of its software licensing and cloud computing businesses, a source familiar with ...
Microsoft stock lagged its Big Tech peers on Friday after news broke late Wednesday that the Federal Trade Commission has opened a broad antitrust probe into the tech giant.After falling as much ...
The U.S. Department of Justice filed an appeal with the Supreme Court in June 2017. [17] Deputy Solicitor General Jeffrey Wall argued that the Second Circuit's order has led Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo! to deny law enforcement officials with requested information stored on servers outside the United States, hampering numerous criminal ...
The case was dropped by Microsoft in October 2017 after policy changes at the Department of Justice. [7] [3] [6] [5] [8] [9] Although no laws were changed, [3] the new DOJ policy "changed data request rules on alerting Internet users about agencies accessing their information," and mandated defined periods of time for secrecy orders from the ...
Perhaps Microsoft learned its lesson from an epic antitrust lawsuit the Justice Department filed nearly 25 years ago. Since then, Microsoft has gotten bigger — but it appears to be playing by ...
Microsoft's intent to acquire Activision Blizzard raised potential antitrust concerns both within the United States and abroad. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said it would review the deal on January 31; although acquisitions are usually reviewed by the Department of Justice, the FTC has begun a push into regulating Big Tech. [6]