twitter's Journal: US M$ Anti-Trust Oversight Extended.

Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly has extended US government oversight of Microsoft, which was due to end in two weeks as a result of filings by the states:

provisions were due to end 12 November, but have now been extended to 31 January to give the states time to provide evidence that Microsoft is not fully complying with the judgement. Judge Kollar-Kottely now has more time to decide whether Microsoft needs continued watching to ensure it complies with the judgement.

Several US states are asking the judge to extend its oversight of Microsoft by as much as five years. The oversight program is a result of the original 2001 antitrust judgement against the software giant.

More, more, more. From the NYT:

The decision reached on Tuesday to extend the consent decree is significant because the judge could have dismissed the bid to extend the oversight without considering it.

From CW:

several states have been pressing for another five years of oversight, saying that Microsoft still has a monopoly on the desktop operating system market and could stymie attempts by Web-based applications to break that hold. ... Microsoft will have until Nov. 6 to submit its response to the California and New York requests for further oversight. U.S. antitrust regulators have until Nov. 9 to file a brief explaining why the DOJ doesn't want an extension, and the states will have until Nov. 16 to reply.