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EU Gives Microsoft 8 Days Until Fines

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the can-we-reposess-something-shiny-and-expensive dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Slashdot: Now in Dutch! by Rogerborg · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Uh, I think we crashed and burned some time ago. What you're seeing now is the weak flailing of a charred editorial arm scrabbling its bloody blackened fingers on the control stick embedded in the sucking wound that used to be its chest.

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  2. Re:potentiial conflict of interest... by krell · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    sorry. I made the mistake in assuming that "Neelie" was one of those US female names that usually male when outside of the US. Like "Laurie".

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  3. Re:potentiial conflict of interest... by krell · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I know of too many British guys with the first name "Laurie" (not Lori). Here's a celebrity example.

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