13 Jan 2000
Microsoft and specialist operating system provider Caldera have reached an out-of-court settlement in a private anti-trust lawsuit - weeks before it was scheduled to go to trial. Microsoft will take a one-time charge against earnings which will reduce earnings per share by three cents.The suit alleged that Microsoft stifled competition by pre-announcing new software products in a deliberate attempt to discourage users of DR-Dos, which was later bought from Novell by Caldera.
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