Computerworld - Microsoft Corp.'s new Windows 7 will be "more thoroughly" monitored for compliance with a 2002 antitrust settlement than earlier versions of the operating system, according to a status report filed last week with the federal judge overseeing the company.
A three-member panel of computer experts created by the decree has been testing Windows 7 since at least last March. Its work was significantly delayed late last year when Microsoft delivered 30 new and 87 revised technical documents that explained "changes to the protocols in Windows 7."
Microsoft has been under a microscope since 2002, when it agreed to document communications protocols for other developers, including competitors, and submit to oversight by federal regulators.
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