MSFT settles with GTW on antitrust claims

AP/Yahoo reports

Microsoft Corp. will pay computer maker Gateway Inc. $150 million over four years to end a long-running legal dispute, and Gateway says it will use the money to market and develop products that run Microsoft software. ***
Over the past two years, Microsoft has spent some $3 billion to settle private antitrust lawsuits filed by Time Warner Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., Be Inc. and Novell Inc. It also paid an undisclosed amount to a trade group that had backed antitrust complaints by the U.S. government and the European Union.