EU Gives Microsoft 8 Days Until Fines

kaysan writes "European Commissioner Neelie Kroes has presented Microsoft with an ultimatum: Before Thursday next week, Microsoft must hand over all secret information on Windows protocols to its competition. Should the company choose to ignore this demand, it will be severely fined. Microsoft's history with EU fines so far amounts to approximately Euro777.5 million. Both linked websites are Dutch, but then again, so is EU commissioner Neelie Kroes."

Comments

EU corruption

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm from Europe and the unspoken truth here is that the EU officials are severely corrupt.

This constant tirade against Microsoft is being paid for by someone - yes, I've said it out loud. The EU officials behind this are being bribed to attack Microsoft.

Whether Microsoft deserve it is another matter, but this issue will not go away until the corruption is uncovered.

Re:I don't get it, who does this help?

[Millenniumman]

Microsoft is not a monopoly. They have a very large percentage of the market, but not a monopoly. BSD/Linux/OS X are also available. No, they aren't all that popular, and they aren't something that most people are going to go out of their way to use, but that is no reason to punish Microsoft.