Henk Devos - March 2004 Entries

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Microsoft convicted in Europe

The European Commission (EC), something like the government of the European Union (EU), has convicted Microsoft to paying a fine of 500 million EURO (1 EURO is a bit more than 1 US$), disclosing information, and releasing a stripped-down Windows version within 120 days. As always, John Lettice comments in The Register. The EC concludes that Microsoft is abusing a monopoly position for unfair competition. The main problem is Media Player, which is shipped with Windows, but competing with other applications.......

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