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Story: EC threatens Microsoft with more fines

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Posted by: ator1940 (Saturday 3 March 2007, 2:38 PM)

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M$ & innovation

"Microsoft has claimed non-patented innovation, as the described features were Microsoft implementations of prior developments by others, or were "immediately obvious minor extensions of prior work".
A majority of M$ contributions to the computing world come from
companies M$ bought or have agreements with.They have "innovated" very little content in the area of interoperability. They have even had the gall to try and patent someone else's work, and almost got away with it.

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