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Microsoft has also fought numerous legal battles against private companies. The most prominent ones are against: Alcatel-Lucent, which won US$1.52 billion in a lawsuit which alleged that Microsoft had infringed its patents on playback of audio files. This ruling was overturned in a higher court.
Microsoft later submitted a second inaccurate videotape into evidence. The issue was how easy or difficult it was for America Online users to download and install Netscape Navigator onto a Windows PC. Microsoft's videotape showed the process as being quick and easy, resulting in the Netscape icon appearing on the user's desktop.
[4] [2] Microsoft also had the backing of companies such as Amazon, Apple, Google, [6] Dropbox and Salesforce in the lawsuit. [5] The company claimed that over the 18 months prior, federal judges had approved 2,600 secret searches of Microsoft customers' data, [ 2 ] with 68 percent of those cases involving secrecy orders with no expiration date ...
The revised lawsuit, filed Thursday, also names Reid Hoffman, a Microsoft board member and former OpenAI board member, as a defendant. And it names Musk's xAI startup and Shivon Zilis, the mother ...
Microsoft faces legal action in Britain over a claim that thousands of businesses using cloud computing services provided by Amazon, Google and Alibaba could be paying higher licence fees to use ...
The lawsuit follows several others filed by fiction and nonfiction writers ranging from comedian Sarah Silverman to "Game of Thrones" author George R.R. Martin against tech companies over the ...
The magistrate judge considered that Microsoft had control of the material outside the United States, and thus would be able to comply with the subpoena-like nature of the SCA warrant. [2] Microsoft appealed to a federal District Judge. [3] The district court upheld the magistrate judge's ruling, requiring Microsoft to provide the emails in full.
The BBC has also approached Microsoft and Mr Hoffman for a response. The lawsuit accuses OpenAI of having transformed from a "tax-exempt charity to a $157bn (£124bn) for-profit, market-paralysing ...