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Microsoft: A federal judge has approved most of the software maker's settlement with government antitrust crusaders. The ruling leaves the company closer to the day it can again concentrate fully on what it does best.
A year has passed since Microsoft, the Justice Department and nine states agreed to settle the Clinton-era suit -- which should have never been filed -- that charged Bill Gates' empire with antitrust violations.
That settlement, reached after a federal appeals court had thrown the case back to the trial court, demands the company make significant changes in how it develops, licenses and markets its software.
It also forces Microsoft to alter its relationship with independent software vendors. The settlement further requires the company to share some of its software code with partners and competitors.
But nine other states and the District of Columbia did not agree to the settlement. They felt Microsoft needed to share more of its code with rivals than is mandated by the settlement.
The holdouts also wanted the government to tell Microsoft it must sell a low-cost version of its Windows operating system without a Web browser.
U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly wisely rejected the holdout states' concerns almost in their entirety.
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