[Am-info] Be settles with Microsoft for $23.3 Million

[Mark Dodel]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=528&ncid=528&e=1&u=/ap/20030906/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_settlement

"Microsoft, Competitor Reach Settlement
Fri Sep 5,11:35 PM ET
	
By HELEN JUNG, AP Business Writer

SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. agreed Friday to pay $23.3 million to Be Inc. to
settle an antitrust lawsuit that claimed the software giant negotiated
deals with computer makers that cut out the smaller company's competing
operating system. "

Here's a big surprise " Microsoft admits no wrongdoing under the
settlement. The company did not disclose further details."

 
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