Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 27th Feb 2008 18:33 UTC, submitted by JJ
"Microsoft was fined a record 899 million euros (USD 1.35 billion) by the European Commission on Wednesday for using high prices to discourage software competition in the latest sanction in their long-running battle. The executive arm of the European Union said the U.S. software group defied a 2004 order from Brussels to provide the information on reasonable terms. Microsoft has now been fined a total of 1.68 billion euros by the EU for abusing its 95 percent dominance of PC operating systems through Windows."
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The air? Someone's ass?
But does it really matter? Nothing that the EU has done has been reasonable or effective. Look at the whole Windows Media Player debacle. The EU forced MS to provide a version of Windows without WMP -- and no one wanted it! Now, it's perched to do the same thing with Internet Explorer, on behalf of Opera.
So, really, what's happening here besides a bunch of Eurocrats getting fat at MS's expense?