As part of Microsoft’s quarterly earnings announcment today, the company noted that antitrust oversight from the Department of Justice will be extended until May 2011. Microsoft reports the whole history, including the final agreement settled by the court on Wednesday.
“We are subject to a Consent Decree and Final Judgment (“Final Judgment”) that resolved lawsuits brought by the U.S. Department of Justice, 18 states, and the District of Columbia in two separate actions. The Final Judgment imposed various constraints on our Windows operating system businesses. Originally, the Final Judgment were scheduled to expire in November 2007. In 2006, we voluntarily agreed to extend certain elements of the Final Judgment to November 2009. The U.S. Department of Justice and other states advised the Court that they would not seek any extension of the Final Judgments to which they are party. In January 2008, the court issued a decision granting the states’ motion to extend these additional provisions of the Final Judgment until November 2009. On April 16, 2009, we agreed with the Department of Justice and the states, respectively, to extend the Final Judgment to May 2011, and submitted to the U.S District Court for the District of Columbia joint motions for this extension. Following a status conference before the Court on April 22, 2009, the Court entered an order approving the extension.”
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