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It was hardly a surprise that some states led by California wanted the expiring oversight mandated by the 2002 US Microsoft antitrust settlement to continue and now they have made the formal request for an extension until 2012 in a court filing.
The California group offered all the familiar justifications for continued oversight, but one new one is their invocation of the specter of Silverlight domination of the emerging Rich Internet Application (RIA) space due to the pervasiveness of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Web browser.
Additionally, an interesting turn of events is that four states in the so-called “New York group” that had favored ending oversight have now changed their minds:
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