IBM Corp. will get $775 million in cash and $75 million worth of software from Microsoft Corp. to settle claims still lingering from the federal government's antitrust case against Microsoft in the 1990s, the companies announced Friday.
The payout is one of the largest that Microsoft has made to settle an antitrust-related case. And it brings the software giant closer to putting behind it claims involving technologies long since eclipsed.
IBM was pressing for restitution for the "discriminatory treatment" that U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson cited when he ruled in 2000 that Microsoft had broken antitrust law.
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