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i-Technology News Microsoft Settles with IBM
Payment of $775 Million Closes Dispute
By: .NETDJ News Desk
Jul. 2, 2005 11:00 AM
Microsoft moved a step closer to tying up all its litigational loose ends with a $775 million agreement with IBM. Over the past few years, the company had previously settled its case with the U.S. government over its business practices and made amends with Sun Microsystems over its use of the Java programming language. "With these particular issues with IBM resolved, we can avoid protracted litigation that really could have lasted years," a Microsoft spokesperson reportedly said. The IBM dispute arose from IBM's apparently unwise decision years ago to pursue its OS/2 operating system, considered technically superior to Microsoft Windows at that time, but to see it founder in the marketplace as Microsoft aggressively pursued hardware vendors in its quest to make Windows the only operating system in the Intel-based PC market. Windows won out in a big way, and although OS/2 is still offered and supported by IBM, it was effectively relegated to the dustbin of PC history many years ago.
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