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EC Freezes Microsoft's Punishment
News The European Commission has temporarily suspended an order requiring Microsoft to begin to offer a version of Windows without a media player this week. The announcement quickly followed Microsoft's request to Court of First Instance asking for an...
[June 28, 2004, 8:45]
Microsoft Vs EC: The Story So Far
News Unlike the master of the workhouse, the Court of First Instance was more generous and temporarily suspended the order requiring Microsoft to start offering Windows without a media player. Nine months after the Commission ruled that Microsoft should...
[April 24, 2006, 13:20]
RealNetworks Stands Alone In Microsoft's Way
News The commission found that Microsoft hurt competition in the market for digital media players, fined the company €497m and ordered it to ship a version of its Windows operating system independently of its Windows Media Player product.
[November 15, 2004, 11:10]
Microsoft Ruling: EU Court Statement
News The second type of conduct to which the Commission took exception was the tying of Windows Media Player with the Windows PC operating system. By way of remedy, the Commission required Microsoft to offer for sale a version of Windows without Windows...
[September 17, 2007, 10:07]
Microsoft Asks For Emergency EU Order
News Microsoft plans to ask a European court in the next few days for an emergency order blocking a ruling imposed in March that levied a heavy fine and required that Windows be offered without a media player.
[June 25, 2004, 9:35]
Microsoft-EU Antitrust Decision Looms
News One issue to be addressed by the court deals with whether Microsoft stifled competition by bundling its Media Player with Windows, the market's dominant operating system. If the court hands the Commission an overwhelming defeat on both the...
[September 17, 2007, 8:15]
RealNetworks Cries Foul Over Microsoft Antitrust Case
Talkback It is probably only coincidence that millions of people agree with me as far as Windows Media Player is concerned.or it could possibly be the fact that millions of people had it installed along with Windows in the first place, whether they 'chose...
[April 1, 2005, 12:48]
Microsoft Attempts To Overturn EC Ruling
News The Commission ordered Microsoft to offer a version of its operating system without a media player and share some of its intellectual property with competitors. The interim measures included in the Commission's 24 March decision gave Microsoft 90...
[June 8, 2004, 14:10]
Inside Windows Vista RTM review
Reviews Two stand-alone features currently available for Windows XP, Internet Explorer 7 and Windows Media Player 11, get their own Windows Vista versions. Media Player 11 Formerly a separate operating system edition, Windows Media Center will be included...
[November 9, 2006, 8:49]
Pricing Scuppers Media Player-free XP
News The European Commission's attempt to increase competition by forcing Microsoft to offer a version of Windows XP without its Media Player looks increasingly forlorn, with many retailers and computer resellers now having indicated they won't sell...
[June 27, 2005, 17:15]
Monti To Microsoft: Guilty As Charged
News It also has 90 days to provide a version of Windows without the Microsoft Media Player, although it can also continue to provide a version that includes the Media Player. He also ruled that the company has been offering Windows on the condition...
[March 24, 2004, 10:25]
Microsoft 'not Ruling Out' Further Antitrust Appeal
News The second type of conduct was "the tying of Windows Media Player with the Windows PC operating system". Microsoft's general counsel, Brad Smith, said he is "not ruling anything out" as the company assimilates a landmark judgement by the European...
[September 17, 2007, 18:07]
EU Sets Court Date For Microsoft Ruling
News The company is also accused of gaining an unfair advantage over rivals and of limiting consumer choice, by bundling its media player with Windows. The EU's regulators may even go so far as to demand that Microsoft supply a stripped-down version of...
[March 16, 2004, 16:20]
EC Opens Up Oracle Case
News The Commission is asking Microsoft to provide a version of its operating system without the Windows Media Player and to share enough of its intellectual property with server rivals to allow them to offer machines loaded with Windows.
[September 13, 2004, 10:25]
EU Court Crushes Microsoft's Antitrust Appeal
News The Commission is also requiring Microsoft to offer an unbundled option to consumers when tying together two separate products, such as Windows and the company's Media Player software. As for Media Player, Smith said Microsoft has offered an...
[September 17, 2007, 9:21]
EU Upholds Microsoft Penalties
News The European Court of First Instance dealt a blow to Microsoft on Wednesday, ordering the company to start offering a version of Windows without a bundled-in media player. It ordered the company to offer a version of Windows without its bundled...
[December 22, 2004, 9:55]
Microsoft: We'll Comply With EU Ruling
News Microsoft has said it will comply with European Commission sanctions and offer a version of Windows without Media Player in the New Year as well as licensing communications protocols to competitors. Microsoft argued that releasing the protocols to...
[December 22, 2004, 14:45]
Small Change For Microsoft
Leader It's not even about having to provide a version of Windows in Europe without Media Player installed. If anything, the presence or otherwise of Microsoft Media Player in European versions of Windows has served to cloud the real issue over consumer...
[September 17, 2007, 16:41]
Big Guns Line Up Against Microsoft
News Although Microsoft has already been forced to make changes to its operating system by offering a version of Windows which isn't bundled with Media Player, the software giant is still fighting to have the record-breaking decision reversed.
[April 6, 2005, 17:20]
Microsoft Set To Appeal EC Ruling
News Smith revealed that Microsoft had offered to ship globally the Windows desktop operating system with both its own media player software and that of a rival. As part of the appeal process Microsoft will ask the European Court of First Instance to...
[March 24, 2004, 15:55]
