
Under fire for a marketing plan that may have improperly favored Windows Media Player, Microsoft told a federal judge that it's <A HREF="http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5976994.html?tag=zdnn.alert">trying hard to avoid any anti-competitive behavior</A> by employees. At a conference in the same courtroom here last month, the company took heat from U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly amid news that one of its employees had devised a marketing agreement that would have forbidden portable music player makers from bundling anything except Windows Media Player with their devices.