Microsoft in more anti-trust hot water

Microsoft in more anti-trust hot water: "A US District Court Judge has slammed Microsoft for delaying a project to improve technical documentation for its communications protocols.

The Troika project was a part of the Volish out-of-court settlement approved by Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly and was supposed to help Microsoft comply with the her order to share proprietary communications protocols with rivals.

That was in 2002 and so far Microsoft has been unable to finish the project and has asked for an extension.

The judge was furious at what she saw as Volish paw dragging. She told them that if it was an issue of resources then Microsoft had to put them in.

She rhetorically asked 'what does it take to get it done'.

She also wanted to know why Microsoft had proposed to portable music player manufacturers that if they shipped Windows Media Player in their software packages, they could include only it and no competing media software.

She said that this proposal was made in the last three months and completely violates the antitrust settlement, Kollar-Kotelly said."