A Massachusetts legislative committee held a hearing this week on an anti-UCITA bill, and the state could become the fifth to enact a law whose sole purpose is to protect its residents and businesses from the controversial software licensing law.
Microsoft Corp. and attorneys for competitors and consumers suing the software giant on Monday gave differing interpretations of a ruling in a group of private antitrust cases brought against the company.
The tug-of-war over how many witnesses Microsoft Corp. will be allowed to call in its ongoing antitrust hearings with nine states and the District of Columbia continued Wednesday, as the two sides laid out their disagreement on the matter in a joint status report filed with the court.
The nine states that have refused to sign a settlement agreement in the U.S. government's antitrust case against Microsoft Corp. urged a federal judge on Monday to deny the software maker's request to push back a hearing on behavioral remedies.
Showing a desire to speed up the litigation process in the U.S. government's landmark antitrust suit against Microsoft Corp., the District Court judge who was recently selected for the case ordered that all parties involved appear for a status conference on Friday, Sept. 21.