EC ends full-time antitrust monitoring of Microsoft
Talkback Makes one wonder how much money exchanged hands to stop monitoring satan's company.
[March 6, 2009, 6:50]
Two years added to Microsoft's US antitrust deal
Talkback Gotta get the IP sorted first so they can licence access properly at a later stage.
[May 15, 2006, 11:59]
Microsoft continues EC antitrust challenge
Talkback Microsoft may have a massive share of the market, but having tried to manage using Linux, for a couple of months, I was only too pleased to restore Windows XP to my machine. If I was Bill Gates, I would tell the EC where to go.
[April 11, 2006, 20:49]
Microsoft rapped over antitrust case
Talkback Bark, bark and no bite usually leads to the (under)dog getting ignored or even stepped upon. Makes one wonder what the (under)dog in question is supposed to protect/prevent versus how effective it is in that in reality.
[October 27, 2005, 22:38]
Microsoft makes last-ditch antitrust plea
Talkback M$ is still trying to avoid compliance by offering eye candy. How pathetic.
[March 23, 2006, 12:33]
Microsoft concedes royalties in antitrust offering
Talkback I don'tpretend to understand a single word of whatever it is that MS have offered the EU as a sop to their demands. My guess is that neither do the erks at the EU. BUT IT LETS THEM OFF THE HOOK. Everyone claims they won and MS continue as before.
[June 11, 2005, 21:15]
Microsoft attacks EC over antitrust process
Talkback No the EC will not back down - it can't or the whole basis of standards in Europe falls down and the common market will no longer be common. M$ will fight tooth and claw but will have to deliver what is required eventually.
[February 16, 2006, 14:27]
Microsoft attacks EC over antitrust process
Talkback M$ is still hoping that if they drag their feet long enough the EC will give up.it ain't gonna happen!
[February 16, 2006, 13:19]
Microsoft attacks EC over antitrust process
Talkback Its a culture clash every time I ask for information of a North American company to get their equipment certified for European use its like getting blood from a stone. Why do your need that - we dont have that - we cant tell you that.
[February 16, 2006, 12:46]
Microsoft attacks EC over antitrust process
Talkback I think MS may have lost the plot on this. Of course they are a big, powerful company. But thowing down the gauntlet to the EC? What do they expect? Do they think the EC will say 'OK, just forget what we said.
[February 16, 2006, 11:08]
Microsoft attacks EC over antitrust process
Talkback Hey, Bill. Would you like some cheese with that whine?
[February 16, 2006, 8:07]
Report: Microsoft expects Adobe to file antitrust suit
Talkback Anyone still believing in 'customer demand', 'free market' and al that crap?
[June 2, 2006, 23:47]
Report: Microsoft expects Adobe to file antitrust suit
Talkback Let Adobe die. Then let Symantec die for being so stupid and naive.
[June 3, 2006, 21:58]
Microsoft seeks help in EU antitrust fight
Talkback Gates is trying to intimidate the EC by showing who's on which end of the MS - US DOJ leash. The EC has already succumbed to pressure from Gates and restructured the oversight of the anti-trust case to a more easily deadlocked or manipulated...
[November 15, 2005, 7:57]
Microsoft bows to EU antitrust ruling
Blog Microsoft has agreed to comply with a 2004 EU court ruling on anticompetition, bringing changes that will "profoundly affect the software industry" according to European commissioner for competition policy Neelie Kroes.
[October 22, 2007, 14:35]
Microsoft will comply with EU antitrust ruling
News Microsoft has agreed to comply with a 2004 EU court ruling on anticompetition, bringing changes that will "profoundly affect the software industry" according to Neelie Kroes, European commissioner for competition policy.
[October 22, 2007, 16:10]
Microsoft to appeal Japanese antitrust ruling
News Microsoft on Monday said it will appeal a ruling by the Japanese Fair Trade Commission that the software maker's contracts with computer makers violate that country's antitrust law. Microsoft said it will seek a legal review of the decision, which...
[July 27, 2004, 10:15]
Mediator appointed in MS antitrust case
News Giving it one last shot, the federal judge overseeing the Microsoft antitrust trial has appointed a federal mediator in bid to prod the two sides to reach an out-of-court settlement. What's more, he is not going to need much time to prepare for the...
[November 22, 1999, 8:35]
EC may extend MS antitrust probe
Blog The EC is to extend its antitrust investigation into Microsoft's behaviour during "a struggle last year to ratify its Office software file format as an international standard," the Wall Street Journal reports.
[February 8, 2008, 15:59]
Observers praise Microsoft mediator choice
News Judge Richard Posner was the perfect pick for mediator of the Microsoft antitrust case, observers said. Fischel's statement noted that Posner (pronounced POSE-ner) pioneered the Chicago school of antitrust analysis, which centres on how laws affect...
[November 22, 1999, 11:17]



