Microsoft's EU Appeal is Ready

Posted by Hemos on Monday June 7, 2004 @01:59AM from the the-battle-smolders-on dept.

psic writes "According to techworld, Microsoft plans on lodging its official appeal to the European Commission concerning the EC's decision to fine the software giant 497.2 million euros, as well as forcing them to open up part of the code of Windows, "so other products could interoperate with it better". It's taken Microsoft a couple of months, but their appeal is ready. One interesting thing is the fact that an appeal will take at least three years to conclude. But the decision of the EC might just come into effect very soon, regardless of Microsoft's appeal."

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Re:This is great by Haydn+Fenton · 2004-06-07 02:27 · Score: 0, Redundant

As most people will, I agree with you, but come on.. whats 497.2M euros to M$?

It's going to take a lot more than that to make Microsoft realise its got to change its ways.
Especially if it could take up to take 3 years for this to happen, how much does Microsoft make in 3 years?

...It's not threatening in the least to them, just a few thousand less "ivory backscratchers" for Mr. Gay *cough* I mean Mr. Gates.