Monday, September 17, 2007

Europe vs. Microsoft

Microsoft lost its appeal of a European antitrust order Monday that obliges the technology giant to pay a record $613 million fine, share communications code with rivals and sell a copy of Windows without Media Player.

In a stinging defeat for the world's biggest software maker, the court decision also affirms Europe's role as the lead international regulator of dominant companies.

- AP/Miami Herald (read full story here)

Those pesky Europeans.

1 comment:

Mark said...

Time to activate the hidden disable command for all European copies of Microsoft Office.

Let those geniuses get by on their own if they are so smart.

Time to fight back.