WASHINGTON (AP)—The judge in the Microsoft Corp. antitrust case urged government lawyers Friday to investigate why only nine companies so far have paid Microsoft to license its technology for their own software products, agreements central to the success of a landmark settlement negotiated with the Bush administration.

"I think all of us had hoped for more agreements," U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly acknowledged during a hearing Friday. "I am interested in finding out why we don't have more licensed products."

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