EU Threatens Microsoft With More Fines
from the send-us-an-invoice dept
The EU says Microsoft isn't fully complying with the 2004 antitrust ruling against it, and will start fining the company 2 million euros a day unless it supplies better documentation for other companies to make their products compatible with Windows. Microsoft is in the process of appealing the antitrust decision, and, of course, disagrees with the antitrust commission's latest view of things. The EU's said before that Microsoft wasn't complying with the ruling, and it doesn't seem likely that the prospect of having to pay 2 million euros a day will significantly change the company's behavior, given how it's shrugged off previous fines, and, as predicted, dragged out the process to minimize its impact on the company.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Microsoft getting screwed? Hey left foot, meet rig
It basically violates my whole mode of thinking to say anything for Microsoft, but this is just one case where it's just wrong to screw them, as it's bad for everyone else.
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Re: Microsoft getting screwed? Hey left foot, meet
I do think MS needs to be taken down a notch, and I think once they start playing with the industry instead of above it, they might see things work out pretty well.
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What about other OS's???
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Re: What about other OS's???
microsoft didn't trick me into using windows by doing anything illegal.. I made a conscious choice to use it..
I've tried other things but windows is just such a nicely polished turd that always came back it to..
all these people complaining about a monopoly just want to see the piss taken out of them pure and simple
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Re: What about other OS's???
I doubt there'd be as much "well that's fine, charge them 2.4M Euros, they can afford it" if it were applied to certain distros of *nix platforms.
Again, it's a matter of "Left foot, meet right shoe" for microsoft, they're getting screwed for having done everything that was asked of them (Hell, accurate, though highly technical interoperability documentation is available from the MSDN library).
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Re: What about other OS's???
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Re: What about other OS's???
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Only one reason
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MS makes >40% profit overall its operations.< BR>MS makes >80% profit on Windows OS...
If MS keeps delaying this case, as it is attempting, then the settlement will be irrelevant as the compeditors will have gone. Standard MS OP.
This shows that the EU finally stopped squabbling amongst themselves long enough to realise that the EU is now the largest market place in the world and as such can dictate terms to even MS. Something the US congress seems unable or unwilling to do.
"a hostile act against an American company with severe consequences for the global economy," Rep. Ben Nelson of Nebraska
"based on protectionist policy, not on sound economic principles." Rep. Adam Smith of Washington
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