EU Says Microsoft's Abuses Are Ongoing

levell writes "Although the legal difficulties Microsoft was having in the US seem to be drawing to a close, it's not yet over in the EU. In this story, the BBC reports that the EU says it is still abusing its monopoly with Windows Media Player, and perhaps more interestingly from a Linux point of view, also in the low-end server market. The story is also being covered on CNN, Ananova, Reuters, etc." The EU's press release is informative.

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about time

[freedommatters]

it's about time the EU did something about this. i'm presuming they wanted to wait until the US actions were more or less finished before they jumped in. then again, knowing the EU, it's probably just taken them this long to write the proposal (and have it seconded, translated, amended, seconded, yada).

Re:about time

[boogy nightmare]

oh yeah cos the American Legal system is soooooo super fast....

its more like watching the European System in Bullet Time (TM) :)

Coalition building

[flea69]

Italy, Spain, and Britian want to bomb Redmond, sightings concerns for world security and the fact Gates may be building WMD's. France and Germany would like negotiations to continue and use UN inspectors to search/inspect Microsoft facilities.

Re:Coalition building

[SmallFurryCreature]

And of course the US goverment was the one who first helped Bill Gates into power anyway supporting him with huge sums of taxpayers money which he used to rob people of their freedoms.

Oh boy is this one going to get modded down.

WMP?

[Hieronymus Howard]

Will their inspectors actually be able to find WMP?

HH
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Re:It would be funny

[azzy]

but as that is all that SCO does anyway, it constitues stopping all their european operations ;)