On one hand, attorneys for the U.S. Department of Justice and a posse of state plaintiffs known as the "New York group," which also includes Maryland, Wisconsin, Ohio and Louisiana, proclaimed the 2002 consent decree with the Bush administration an unqualified success. In a court filing with U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly on Thursday, they said the agreement has accomplished its intended goals.
However, attorneys for the so-called "California group" of plaintiffs -- which also includes Connecticut, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Massachusetts and the District of Columbia -- beg to differ. Those attorneys, who have a history of being more openly critical of Microsoft than their prosecutorial counterparts, argued in their filing (PDF) that the agreement has been largely ineffective. They suggested that a 10-year term for the consent decree, which they characterized as "standard" practice, would be preferable to the existing five-year life span, particularly since Microsoft only recently released Windows Vista.
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