States don’t want antitrust oversight of Microsoft to end in November. In a filing on Thursday, they said that ending court oversight of Microsoft’s business practices would not allow enough time to consider the antitrust implications of Vista.
This was the conclusion of a group of states, lead by California, to U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, who oversees Microsoft adherence to the terms of its 2002 antitrust settlement. Besides California, other states include Utah, Florida and the District of Columbia. The group said that the current oversight from the 2002 consent decree …
“has not led to any more competition. The report cites Microsoft’s continued dominance in the operating system market and the fact that few, if any, PC makers have sold computers with non-Microsoft Web browsers set as the default, among other examples.”
Micronet’s two cents is … if five years of oversight didn’t stimulate competition, why should continued oversight make a difference? What do you think?
