Microsoft and EU Talks End

Paul Longford writes "Microsoft talks with the EC have collapsed. The competition commisioner Mario Monti just made this statement in which he said: 'I'd just like to inform you that a settlement on the Microsoft case has not been possible. I therefore intend to propose to my colleagues in the Commission next Wednesday to adopt a decision, which has already received the unanimous backing of Member States.' This is bad news for Microsoft - it looking at a considerable fine and possibly being forced to open up Windows. It looks like it will be a harsh decision too. Monti says: 'In the end, I had to decide what was best for competition and consumers in Europe. I believe they will be better served with a decision that creates a strong precedent.'"

Comments

Alan Ralsky.

[Anonymous Coward]

Alan Ralsky needs an ass tumor. A big one. A huuuuge one. One that hangs out the back of his pants so far that children follow him down the street and poke at it with sticks. Scott Richter, on the other hand, needs to be abducted by Hell's Angels and used as a pass-around fuck toy during initiation weekend.

I know it's off-topic, and mod me to hell if you wish, but I got absolutely *barraged* by spam last night, and as I'm sitting here cleaning out my inbox and reporting all this shit to Spamcop, I'm having quite an entertaining time imagining cancerous and anal-raperous punishments for the spamlords of the universe. I'm also imagining inventing a zombified broadband spambox detector that I would use while roaming the country. Every time I detected a compromised computer I'd walk up to their house, cut their cable feed, and plug the cable directly into their electrical mains. Then, when they came screaming from their house because little Johnny's computer just disintegrated into smoking shrapnel, I'd explain to them why their internet privileges had been terminted with extreme prejudice.

Then I would pee on their cat and walk away whistling a jaunty tune.

Harrumph.

Re:Microsoft can thank Bush

[Anonymous Coward]

Ahem... And what exactly did President Clinton do to crack down on MS? About as much as he did to kill Osama when he had the chance months before 9-11, that's what. He was too busy getting BJs on the taxpayer's dime to protect America. Why don't you stop trying to blame the weather on Bush and put blame where it really belongs. Seriously, the way you radical liberals give a pass to Bill Clinton, you may as well line up to suck him, too.

Re:Ding Dong the Witch is Dead..

[minus_273]

then they quickly surrendered and accepted all the demands of the terrorists. thats a lot of backbone.

Re:Ding Dong the Witch is Dead..

[Anonymous Coward]

The terrorists would not have struck if Spain would not have supported the US and UK in the illegal war.

Now it's time to fix the mistake made by the right-wing government and withdraw the troops.

Re:Ding Dong the Witch is Dead..

[minus_273]

are you delusional? do you really think that they would have ignoerd alll the crackdown on al-queda if you didnt support the war? heck even france has been listed as a target im sure they can just as easily pull their troops out and remove the threat right? if you say france is a target becasue of the headscarf issue, are you trying to say that france should undo it? are you saying democracies should undo policies al-queda dislikes. There a word for that..im sure you know it.
Thank you spain for creating the most successful terrorsit attack in recent memory. Al queda said: get out of iraq and dont cooperate with the US and you did exactly that quite promptly too. We can expect more attacks before elections becasue of you.

Re:It's about time.

[bfg9000]

+5, Funny.