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RealNetworks Cries Foul Over Microsoft Antitrust Case
Talkback Perhaps you should Microsoft and the EU / Anti Trust Commission how this can be done. If you have read the basics of the anti trust case, you would find that Microsoft's primary defence was 'You can't remove Internet Explorer or Media Player it is...
[April 7, 2005, 14:34]
RealNetworks Cries Foul Over Microsoft Antitrust Case
Talkback Windows Back Up, System Restore , Paint , Calculator , NotePad , Movie Maker , Narrator , On Screen Keyboard , Sound recorder , Character Map, Disk Defragmenter , Security Centre , WordPad , Zip Utility, is it sensible to presume that they (EU...
[April 5, 2005, 12:19]
RealNetworks Cries Foul Over Microsoft Antitrust Case
Talkback I say "yet" as I understand that Microsoft will encompass the using of adware / spyware within RealPlayer during talks with the EU Commission. The minute I become dissatisfied (for whatever reason) with the Microsoft Media Player I shall use another.
[April 12, 2005, 10:16]
Microsoft Blow In Private Antitrust Case
News The antitrust case against Microsoft can still go back the to Court of Appeals, and then there's the European Commission's investigation. In what could be a legal blow to Microsoft, a federal judge has signaled that antitrust plaintiffs who filed...
[October 28, 2002, 9:08]
RealNetworks Cries Foul Over Microsoft Antitrust Case
News Last week the EC rejected Microsoft's proposed server interoperability licence - another consequence of the antitrust case - saying that it contained a number of serious flaws including unjustifiably high royalty fees and the exclusion of open...
[March 23, 2005, 16:40]
EC Says Microsoft Probe Goes On
News The European Commission's antitrust case against Microsoft will continue, unaffected by the software giant's settlement with the US Department of Justice last week, according to EC officials. Like the US Sherman Antitrust Act, under which the DoJ...
[November 5, 2001, 12:32]
EU Court Crushes Microsoft's Antitrust Appeal
News Some legal experts said that, with a favourable court ruling in the Microsoft case, the Commission would be likely to remain on its current aggressive track in pursuing antitrust cases, whereas an unfavourable ruling would have likely "taken the...
[September 17, 2007, 9:21]
EC Threatens Microsoft With More Fines
News The European Commission has warned Microsoft that it could impose further penalties in its ongoing antitrust case against the software giant. This dispute dates back to the landmark EC antitrust ruling against Microsoft in 2004.
[March 1, 2007, 14:44]
EC May Put Antitrust Focus On Google
News Following the rejection of Microsoft's antitrust appeal, the European Commission has defended its stance against US critics and is believed to be considering action against other technology suppliers, with Google the most likely target.
[September 21, 2007, 15:30]
Microsoft Publishes EC Papers
News Commission has allegedly mishandled its antitrust case against the software giant. In the response document published on Thursday, Microsoft again attacked the EC over the way it has handled the antitrust case.
[February 24, 2006, 7:45]
FSF Berates Apathy Over Microsoft Antitrust Case
News Georg Greve, president of the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE), criticised the IT industry on Wednesday for not doing enough to support the European Commission in its antitrust case against Microsoft.
[February 23, 2006, 16:45]
EC Sets Microsoft Antitrust Date
News A date for a decision from the EC on the long-running Microsoft antitrust case has been set -- but it's being kept top secret by the European Commission, amid rumours that the EC is still holding out for a deal with the software company.
[February 24, 2004, 13:10]
Microsoft Attempts To Overturn EC Ruling
News Microsoft has appealed to a European court to overrule measures imposed by European antitrust regulators that the company says would hurt its competitive edge and give vital intellectual property to rivals.
[June 8, 2004, 14:10]
Microsoft's Sun Deal 'will Not Affect EU Appeal'
News However, another European antitrust lawyer said that the Commission's case rests on very different principles from the commercial imperatives that have brought Microsoft and Sun to settlement. The settlement is a good thing, but I don't think it...
[April 5, 2004, 17:20]
Microsoft Looks To European Resolution
News The antitrust case against Microsoft can still go back the to Court of Appeals, and then there's the European Commission's investigation. The plaintiff states attempted to similarly expand the scope of the US case, but Kollar-Kotelly rejected the...
[November 4, 2002, 7:58]
EC Opens Up Oracle Case
News Some observers have said that it could be harder for the Commission to make an antitrust case in Europe, where SAP has an even bigger presence than in the United States. If the European Commission, which acts as the antitrust regulatory agency for...
[September 13, 2004, 10:25]
Microsoft Marks 10 Years Of Antitrust Action
News Losing or settling case after case, Microsoft has tested the bounds of antitrust and patent infringement law, with little evidence that its power has waned or that its behaviour has been substantially changed.
[April 14, 2004, 12:30]
Microsoft Fine Splits Industry
News In the antitrust case, Microsoft faces a drop-dead deadline of 24 July to deliver the last set of protocols to the European Commission, which is then expected to take another six weeks to vet out the accuracy and completeness of the material.
[July 13, 2006, 10:05]
There's Something About Mario
News Despite some setbacks, legal experts said that Monti has brought a greater degree of deliberation to the European Commission's antitrust proceedings than many of his predecessors have. Appointed to head the Commission's Competition Division in 1999...
[March 24, 2004, 14:30]
It Can Pay To Criticise Microsoft
News According to evidence presented at the Microsoft antitrust case, Microsoft's lobbying budget grew from almost nothing in 1995 to be the largest in US corporate history by the time the antitrust trial was underway.
[November 25, 2004, 12:05]
