EU Rejects Microsoft Settlement Proposal

Karl Cocknozzle writes "European Union antitrust officials have dismissed as insufficient Microsoft's offer to settle their most recent antitrust problem in Europe. Spokespeople for the European Commission and Microsoft declined to comment on a report in today's Financial Times that Microsoft had offered to include rival media player software from Apple and Real Networks on a CD-ROM packaged with personal computers to help resolve the case. Previously, the EU had demanded that Microsoft either unbundle Windows Media Player, or also bundle rival media players with Windows. It appears that Microsoft might get more than a slap on the wrist this time around."

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Re:Gates versus Europe - Round 1?

[pyros]

Media Player don't load until you ask it.

I would contend that some WMP libraries are included in OS DLLs, which means that as long as you have the OS running, WMP is partially loaded.

Re:Gates versus Europe - Round 1?

[Frizzle Fry]

nd if they were documented such that I could reference them, then I wouldn't be here complaining

I didn't mean provide full documentation of the API itself, I meant provide a news story, etc., saying that wmp uses "special api's".

Let's try this again. You say: "wmp uses special api's". I say "Really, I didn't know that. Please point me to more info on this, or at least tell me how you know this is true". And you say... what? I didn't really get an answer just that this is "well known". Well then there should be some info on it somewhere, right? Or, again, were you just making things up?