Microsoft anti-trust concessions

Microsoft has announced a number of concessions that follow from its anti-trust settlement with the US Justice Department, even though this agreement has yet to be accepted by the latest judge in the five-year campaign, Colleen Kollar-Kotelly. Reporting of the announcement generally suffers from a bad case of "oh dear, how can we dumb this down for our readers" (let's assume the writers understand it) with Paul Thurrott's Wininfo summary and Infoworld being exceptions. Microsoft's coverage of the settlement program is mixed, but the press release is worth a skim.