[link|http://news.com.com/2100-1001-840810.html|They sure don't waste time]

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Based on the Feb. 8 deposition of Microsoft Senior Vice President Richard Fade, the non-settling states charge that the company has taken advantage of the terms of the proposed antitrust settlement "to adopt significantly more onerous licensing terms and to impose them on the (computer manufacturers)."

Microsoft spokesman Jim Desler accused the states of distorting Fade's deposition and said the idea that Microsoft was improperly benefiting from the new licensing terms was "simply inaccurate."

The states said Microsoft had forced computer manufacturers to agree to sign a provision that would go further in preventing them from enforcing the patents on their own hardware against Microsoft.