Microsoft Judge Keeps Record Open

The judge in the Microsoft antitrust case on Thursday gave the software giant and the government six more days to further hone their arguments before he closes the trial’s record for good.

The order delays for at least a week a final decision over what remedies to impose on Microsoft, which has already been found to have violated antitrust laws.

Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson’s order gives the Justice Department and 17 states until Monday morning to respond to Microsoft’s latest attack on their plan to break the company into two parts.

A 34-page defense filing, issued late Wednesday, blasted the government’s proposed decree as “defective in numerous respects, making the document vague and ambiguous.”

Microsoft will then have until Wednesday morning to respond.