Microsoft EU Monopoly Appeal Thrown Out

smnicoll writes "The European Court of First Instance has thrown out Microsoft's appeal to have penalties for the abuse of monopoly suspended, reports BBC News Online. 'Microsoft's application for interim measures is therefore dismissed in its entirety,' The court's statement said. 'The evidence adduced by Microsoft is not sufficient to show that implementation of the remedies imposed by the Commission might cause serious and irreparable damage.' The commission's case is mainly focused on Microsoft's integration of Windows Media Player into the operationg system and the effects that has on the ability of Real Networks and Apple to get their rival players used." Similar stories at Bloomberg, CNET, and Reuters (via CNN).

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MS to make MediaPlayer free version of windows

[SpaceLifeForm]

Link.

Re:Integration

[10Ghz]

Quicktime is tightly integrated with Mac OS X. Does this mean Apple has committed an equally horrible crime?

No, since Apple is not a monopoly.

In fact, most operating systems come with a bunch of integrated technologies. I fail to see why this is bad.

Only one of those operating systems is a monopoly. And antitrust-law says that using your monopoly in one area to gain monopoly in other areas is against the law. MS used their OS-monopoly to gain monopoly in web-browsers. Now they tried to gain monopoly in the streaming-media markets, by using their OS-monopoly. And that is against the law.

I find it really surprising that some people simply do not "get it".