The United States government’s antitrust oversight of software giant Microsoft was supposed to have ended way back in 2007, with Microsoft completing required technical documentation on its technologies and protocols so third parties could develop products that successfully interoperated with Microsoft’s operating systems and services. However, has of mid-2006 the documentation was far from complete, so the Department of Justice and Microsoft agreed to a two-year extension that pushed the oversight of Microsoft’s antitrust compliance all the way out to November 2009. And now? Those two years weren’t enough, and—despite a new commitment interoperability— Microsoft still isn’t done with that documentation. The result? Microsoft and the DOJ have filed for another 18 month extension of Microsoft’s antitrust oversight.
