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Microsoft pulls out of EC browser monopoly hearing | |
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| Time: 06:23 EST/11:23 GMT | News Source: Computer Weekly | Posted By: Byron Hinson | ||
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Microsoft has moved closer to European sanctions for monopolising the internet browser market by withdrawing from oral hearings scheduled to take place in Brussels next month. Microsoft said it had pulled out of the hearings set for 3-5 June because important European anti-trust officials would have been unable to attend, according to the Financial Times. The US software company claimed it had asked the European Commission (EC) for alternative dates, but none had been offered. |
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| #1 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at Friday, May 22, 2009 08:53:39 AM |
| Microsoft must be confused and believes its running the show. First MS requests the hearing as a delay tactic, and now they're trying again to delay with just about the lamest excuse I've ever seen. |
| #2 By 8556 (173.27.241.22) at Friday, May 22, 2009 03:15:59 PM |
| Being unfamiliar with EU regulations, I suspect that their may be some future legal recourse being set in motion. Who the frak knows? |
| #3 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at Monday, May 25, 2009 01:44:37 PM |
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One of MS's sock puppets, ACT, has stated today that the EU commission must let MS do as it pleases or it will be The End of the World.
"Don't remove IE's code," Zuck (Jonathan Zuck, president of the Association for Competitive Technology (ACT)) said, adding: "I don't care whether the application is there or not but software developers need IE's code in order to do their work," he said. I've worked for several software companies that write for Windows. We must not be software developers because we have never needed IE for anything. Apparently, in this day of many browser choices, IE is still the glue that holds the Universe together. "The Commission seems intent on ending the functionality of Windows. If it strips out IE what will it strip out next? Where will it stop?" he asked. When you can't force someone to do something, the next trick is to scare them into it. Yes, if you force MS to bundle competing browsers, the next thing you know the EU will decree that you can't use a mouse anymore. And then they'll take away networking! Next thing you know, you'll be entering your code on punch cards! Oh, won't someone stop the insanity?!?! |
