Thanks to Marty for this
link.
“As part of settlement talks with the government set for today,
Microsoft has offered to discuss the way it handles advance
blueprints for upcoming versions of Windows operating systems,
according to a person close to the case.”
“In the brief document listing the issues it was willing to
discuss during the talks, Microsoft last week told the U.S.
Department of Justice and 19 states that one was the application
programming interfaces, known as APIs, the source said.”