Microsoft: We're making headway on antitrust

Microsoft said in a court filing Thursday that it is has taken new steps to meet obligations under its 2002 antitrust settlement with the U.S. government. A federal judge and prosecutors recently criticized the company for sluggishness in developing technical documentation for licensees of its Microsoft Communications Protocol Program, designed to assist third-party developers in building server software that works with Windows.

Microsoft said it had shipped prerelease versions of parsers, along with instructional materials, to each of its 26 licensees and had recruited additional technical support staff to field questions. It said it also had assigned additional engineers to addressing bugs in the ongoing parser development, which it hopes to release in final form by July.

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It Is Unbelievable....

... that the US software company - Microsoft was not around during WW2 when computer technologies were needed to achieve certain military objectives particularly in Western Europe; also, that the aircraft, automotive and other industries grew at a rapid pace folling the period of the military conflicts in Europe and elsewhere; shouldn't one find it amazingly strange that the world appears to be looking towards a particular software company to provide its competitors with "Communications Protocol Program, designed to assist third-party developers in building server software that works with Windows"! What did happen... did the software engineers, scientists and other decision makers at these companies experience some strange case of "sleeping sickness" and are only now waking up to competitive needs or what! What if the Windows Machines cannot render functionalities required certain operations, the possibilities of data corruption; also, what computing technological advice can be expected from computer experts in Europe when European countries does not have the track experience of sending "manned-missions" into space! :-( :-( :-(