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« FSA gets tough week | Main | Nanotechnology firms unite » December 22, 2004Microsoft loses European Comission fightMicrosoft has lost it's fight so far with the European Commission in Europe's biggest ever anti-trust case, totalling 497m euros (￡331m; $613m). Microsoft had appealed that punitive demands of the EC would cause "irreparable damage" were entirely dismissed by the European Court of First Instance, second only to the European Court of Justice in terms of legal authority in Europe. As of January 2005, Microsoft cannot release versions of Windows operating systems bundled with the Windows Media Player - a flasgship enterprise of the Windows XP operating system. Microsoft has also been ordered to reveal sections of code to allow third parties to develop additional media applications for Windows. According to: Brussels blow to Microsoft upheld
In Microsoft readies scaled-back Windows, CNet further reports on the press conference Microsoft held, in which Microsoft group product manager, Matt Pilla, complained that European comsumers would be getting less value for their product. After all, In addition to lacking a copy of Windows Media Player, the new version of Windows won't be able to do things like play a CD or MP3 file or transfer music to a portable device--at least not without additional software from another company. Although it's easy to be sympathetic to the EU consumer, who will now have to make a decision regarding their choice of media player, anybody familiar with Microsoft as a company will be well aware that the European Commission's concerns of abuse of monopoly are a well-known Microsoft tactic. Posted by brian_turner at December 22, 2004 03:50 PM | Discuss this in the Business, Marketing & Search forumsTrackback PingsTrackBack URL for this entry: |
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