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Monti to Microsoft: Guilty as charged
Talkback Who is Monti trying to kid? For once I agree that Microsoft should stand firm on this one!
[March 24, 2004, 12:48]
Monti to Microsoft: Guilty as charged
News Today, Mario Monti, the European Competition Commissioner, issued his ruling in the long-running case against Microsoft, fining the American software giant $613.4m (€497m), the heaviest punishment in any European competition case to date.
[March 24, 2004, 10:25]
Monti promises 'active, not activist' EC competition policy
News Mario Monti, the competition commissioner for the European Commission, said on Tuesday that European competition policy needs to be "active, but not activist" in promoting a healthy business environment in EC member states.
[November 27, 2001, 12:08]
Monti's verdict on Microsoft - blow by blow
News Issuing the verdict, the EU competition commissioner, Mario Monti, said Microsoft broke EU competition law by "leveraging its near monopoly in the market for PC operating systems onto the markets for work group server operating systems and for...
[March 24, 2004, 11:30]
Monti to Microsoft: Guilty as charged
Talkback Good on you Monti I hope this sends out a strong message that Europe is not to be taken lightly. We will not be scared to take on mighty companys and we will have a free and fair trading enviroment.
[January 12, 2005, 19:22]
Monti to Microsoft: Guilty as charged
Talkback When people buy a car it comes with a free stereo. A lot of people choose to replace it with a better one because there are a lot of great stereos on the market. When people buy windows it comes with a free media player.
[March 24, 2004, 21:21]
Monti to Microsoft: Guilty as charged
Talkback EC dictates what constitutes an OS - apparently, an operating system is no longer allowed to operate the soundcard, speakers & CD/DVD drive components of a PC. Apple, however, ship their CD & DVD players as part of Mac OS X - AND tie their systems...
[March 25, 2004, 0:33]
Monti to Microsoft: Guilty as charged
Talkback Having to pay for (possibly) more than one functioning media players does not "help" the consumer it helps the companies. I listen to mp3s on my FREE version of winamp, watch streams on FREE RealPlayer and watch videos on FREE windows MP.
[March 25, 2004, 12:20]
Monti to Microsoft: Guilty as charged
Talkback I am absoloutly delighted with the Commisioners decision. It is high time Microsoft got a hefty kick up the backside, after all you do not need to be a genius to see that Microsoft has been abusing it's monopoly for God knows how many years.
[March 25, 2004, 16:41]
Monti to Microsoft: Guilty as charged
Talkback I personally think that this is ridiculous. The media player issue relies on seriously flawed logic. The net effect of a ruling by the competition commissioner is that the customer will pay more ! How ridiculous is that !
[March 25, 2004, 12:29]
Monti to Microsoft: Guilty as charged
Talkback Competition is an essential for a free market o operate fairly. Competition means better consumer wellfare, more innovation and a stronger economy. If you want evidence of this read Antitrust Law by Richard Posner - 2nd Edition.
[June 11, 2005, 21:19]
Monti to Microsoft: Guilty as charged
Talkback This is a good day as finally politics realised that computing should not rule the world.
[March 24, 2004, 14:34]
Monti to Microsoft: Guilty as charged
Talkback All well and good, but I have little doubt that the Luxembourg court will have to put a stay on the orders for the 5 years it takes to consider it. In this time Microsoft will gain monopoly status in the media player market.
[March 24, 2004, 15:42]
Microsoft's nemesis joins merchant bank
News Mario Monti, the ex-EC competition commissioner who played an instrumental role in the landmark antitrust judgement against Microsoft, has found a new job. Monti, who left his EC post last year, has now accepted an offer to become international...
[December 14, 2005, 15:40]
Microsoft awaits punitive EU judgment
News Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer had flown in earlier this week for talks with EU Competition Commissioner Mario Monti. But those talks collapsed on Thursday, and Monti said in a statement that the two sides had failed to agree on...
[March 19, 2004, 7:40]
There's something about Mario
News When European regulators derailed the General Electric-Honeywell merger three years ago, American investment bankers joked that they'd found a new bogeyman: Mario Monti, the region's top antitrust enforcer.
[March 24, 2004, 14:30]
BT may face £2bn bill for broadband delays
News I think Monti's words show that he is inclined to pursue the issue. EC Competition Commissioner Mario Monti said last week that he is investigating the process of local-loop unbundling (LLU) across the European Union.
[September 19, 2001, 14:55]
BT faces EC wrath over local-loop unbundling
News Mario Monti, the European Commissioner for Competition Policy, is unimpressed by the slow pace of LLU across the Union. The Commission is currently working on an enquiry into the issue, and Monti has warned that some incumbent telecoms companies...
[September 18, 2001, 16:54]
EC threatens more legal action over broadband
News Speaking at a public hearing into the issue of access to the "last mile" of Europe's telephone networks on Monday, Mario Monti, European Commissioner for Competition Policy, said the current situation was unacceptable.
[July 8, 2002, 16:14]
Sun after MS trade secrets, says MS
News The commissioner in charge of competition, Mario Monti, sent Microsoft Thursday a "statement of objections.for allegedly abusing its dominant position in the market for personal computer operating systems software by leveraging this power into the...
[August 3, 2000, 16:27]
