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Microsoft loses appeal against EU antitrust ruling | |
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| Time: 05:01 EST/10:01 GMT | News Source: ComputerWorld | Posted By: Jonathan Tigner | ||
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Microsoft Corp. failed Monday in its bid to overturn a European Commission antitrust ruling against it, when the European Union's second highest court dismissed the company's appeal and ordered it to pay the bulk of the Commission's legal expenses. The long-awaited decision by the Court of First Instance in Luxembourg supports the Commission, the E.U.'s top antitrust regulator, on the two essential aspects of the case. The Commission was right to take action to prevent Microsoft from bundling in Windows Media Player into the Windows operating system, the court concluded. It was also right to force Microsoft to reveal interoperability information to makers of server operating systems. An order for Microsoft to pay a fine of €497 million (then around US$600 million) also still stands. The only fault the court found in the Commission was the powers it granted to an independent monitoring trustee to oversee Microsoft's implementation of its 2004 antitrust ruling. |
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| #1 By 28801 (65.90.202.10) at Monday, September 17, 2007 10:00:17 AM |
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Bad month for MS!
First OpenXML fails thanks to IBM lobbying, and now this. |
| #2 By 23275 (24.179.4.158) at Monday, September 17, 2007 10:25:16 AM |
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Mercy.
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| #3 By 28801 (65.90.202.10) at Monday, September 17, 2007 11:33:50 AM |
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I love some of the quotes:
"The mood at EU headquarters was one of elation and the court's decision was hailed as a big victory for the EU's competition policy and for consumer rights." Now there is an unbiased organization - sounds like they've got a vendetta! "In a stinging defeat for the world's biggest software maker, the court decision also affirms Europe's role as the lead international regulator of dominant companies." "The ruling confirms more than ever that Microsoft must comply," said EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes. "I will not tolerate continued noncompliance." Power corrupts - and absolute power corrupts absolutely (I was speaking of the European Commission, not MS in case Latch is out there) Neely should forget all of this anti-competitive crap and spend a little more time in the beauty parlor. Maybe then she could get lucky and her sour puss would soften. |
| #4 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at Monday, September 17, 2007 12:06:26 PM |
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#1: Surely, you meant to say that MS' defective submission was not approved despite MS buying as many votes as it could manage.
#3: Oh boo hoo. MS had years and years to comply with the EU's interoperability ruling but failed, which is bizarre considering how much MS talks the talk about interoperability. But I forgot, interoperability to MS means you interoperate with them and not the other way around, and only to the extent that MS will allow. Good for the EU in not letting a corporation that has already been convicted of abusing its monopoly position to not steamroll through them like they did to the US. |
| #5 By 23275 (24.179.4.158) at Monday, September 17, 2007 01:53:07 PM |
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There is a lot of danger here - in how US based companies will leverage this and start to try and rip Microsoft's operating systems apart piece by piece.
Instant search, anything media related... it won't stop. We'll see what the appeal offers. If nothing, it might be time to pull out of the EU entirely. That won't happen, but I'd like to see it. |
| #6 By 28801 (65.90.202.10) at Monday, September 17, 2007 02:06:57 PM |
| Hmmm, sounds like Latch has the hots for Ms. Kroes... |
| #7 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at Monday, September 17, 2007 02:48:32 PM |
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#5: That's a little over the top. All the EU wants is for MS to license their communications protocols under RAND terms. Windows API has already been dissected in various books over the years.
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| #8 By 23275 (24.179.4.158) at Monday, September 17, 2007 03:51:00 PM |
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#7, The EU doesn't think that way - limits, I mean....
There are no limits to a government's power and control over people. This is a lot more about extending that control to the US and "demonstrating" They need to be very careful - they'd drown in their own phlegm from the resulting pneumonia they'd get - opposite any head cold the US would get in a showdown. Personally, I want socialist governments crushed and done away with forever - reduced to that which does serve the people and sufficiently small enough to stay well and truly afraid of the people. |
| #9 By 28801 (65.90.202.10) at Monday, September 17, 2007 07:12:45 PM |
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#8 Right on:
"the court decision also affirms Europe's role as the lead international regulator of dominant companies." |
