The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a request from Novell to take up its anti-trust lawsuit against Microsoft, finally ending a court battle that has been going on for years.
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Microsoft has announced a new collaboration with the Linux-based SUSE that will allow Windows Server Hyper-V workloads to run on SUSE Cloud-based infrastructures.
A judge in the long running WordPerfect case between Microsoft and Novell has dismissed the suit in Microsoft's favor, ruling that WordPerfect's market share was already too low to save it.
Microsoft plans to ask for a full dismissal of the case against Novell concerning its WordPerfect software after a jury was unable to come up with a verdict in the case last week.
One lone juror held out against 11 of his peers in Novell's anti-trust law suit against Microsoft, which ended Friday without a verdict. The 21 year old says there was too much speculation involved.
The judge in the Microsoft-Novell case has demised the claims by Novell after the jury failed to reach a unanimous decision. Novell could seek to re-try the case if it so pleases to do so.
The jury that is currently deliberating the fate of the lawsuit between Microsoft and Novell in Salt Lake City will enter its third day with no hint of a verdict in sight.
The trial between Microsoft and Novell is now in the hands of the jury in Salt Lake City, Utah as they must now decided whether or not Microsoft is guilty of engaging in anticompetitive behavior.
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates concluded his testimony Tuesday in a Salt Lake City courtroom in a case that has Microsoft fighting off a lawsuit against Novell, the former owner of WordPerfect.
Testifying today at the lawsuit trial between Microsoft and Novell, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates claims that Microsoft dumped an unnamed feature from Windows 95 because of stability.
Bill Gates is taking the stand to defend Microsoft in an anti-trust lawsuit that Novell is bringing against the company and at the heart of their defense is an email from Bill Gates back in 1994.
Microsoft asked the judge to dismiss the current anti-trust case the company has with Novell, after the judge questioned whether Novell had shown enough evidence to take the case to a jury decision.
Microsoft goes to trial this week in Utah against software company Novell who claims Microsoft has violated anti-trust laws in a lawsuit the company filed back in 2004.
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