AP: Microsoft to ask appeals court for rehearing. Microsoft spokesman Viveck Varma said the petition was “a good-faith attempt to seek clarification,” and should not be read as an unwillingness to settle the landmark antitrust case out of court.
Good faith? Microsoft doesn’t know the meaning of the expression.
No, read this for what it is — a stalling tactic.
Microsoft knows that the longer it can keep this case in court, the harder it will be for anyone to come up with meaningful remedies to its lawbreaking. Getting Windows XP onto PCs is the current priority.
If the Justice Department and states don’t go for an injunction to block XP, at least the version that’s currently proposed for release, little they do in the future is likely to matter very much. Do they grasp that?