Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Computerworld quotes Microsoft’s motion as saying that: "Plaintiffs' discovery almost surely will involve intrusion into the most sensitive pricing decisions of the OEMs, wholesalers and retailers who sell the PCs at issue and set their prices. Continued discovery thus will disrupt Microsoft's relationships with its business partners, a disruption that will be unnecessary if the Ninth Circuit reverses."
Computerworld’s quoting of the motion continued that: "The result will be nationwide publicity that impugns the [Windows Vista Capable] program. Although Microsoft fully expects to vindicate the program in the course of this litigation, allowing notice to proceed in the face of the pending appeal will jeopardize Microsoft's goodwill based on an order that, Microsoft respectfully contends, might be held erroneous from its inception."
Microsoft is also quoted as saying that: "Microsoft's interest in avoiding unnecessary litigation costs; preserving the time of its employees; insulating OEMs, wholesalers and retailers from discovery into confidential pricing policies; and maintaining its goodwill far outweighs the interest of class members in relief they never expected before filing this action”.
Microsoft will likely have to wait 90 days for a ruling on the appeal. Computerworld notes that if this request is granted, it will push the trial back, which was scheduled to start in October.
About the only thing we’re sure of here, especially after the Vista SP1 debacle that still isn’t available for download through Windows Update, and which I’m still going to be installing with trepidation when it arrives, is that if anyone is ‘capable’ of making Windows a mess, instead of fixing it, it’s Microsoft.
Let’s hope, for Microsoft’s sake, that Windows 7 turns out to be OS heaven – the Windows users of the world who have been burned by Windows Vista - and haven’t yet switched to Mac OS X or Linux - surely deserve it.
David Bass
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