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Microsoft Meets EU Antitrust Deadline

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the grumbling-like-an-old-man dept.

An anonymous reader writes to mention a News.com article, which reports on Microsoft's attempt to meet the EU's requirements in their ongoing antitrust case. The updated documents that Microsoft has delivered, they hope, will put off the leveling of a several-millions-of-dollars-a-day fine against the OS maker. Whether or not the documents have accomplished that task will not be known for several months yet. From the article: "The commission set a deadline of July but delayed it until a court proceeding finished in December, 2004. In July, 2006, the commission fined Microsoft $357.3 million for dragging its feet, on top of a fine of almost $646 million in 2004 for its initial violation. In a statement calling the submission of documents a 'milestone,' Microsoft said it had completed the review and editing of some 100 documents, which number 8,500 pages."

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  1. in other news by RelliK · · Score: 3, Funny

    Slashdot meets dupe quota. The number of duplicate stories is now 1,000,000. Slashdot spokesman and frequent poster Zonk called it a 'milestone'.

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    1. Re:in other news by remembertomorrow · · Score: 2, Funny

      I'm beginning to think that Slashdot's "editors" are just poorly-written Perl scripts.

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    2. Re:in other news by RuBLed · · Score: 2, Funny

      It's called a re-run, much like what the tv stations are doing everyday. Microsoft is just making sure we get the point and that we get it correctly because after all they did meet a deadline.

    3. Re:in other news by eln · · Score: 3, Funny

      The truly amazing part is, if you don't count the dupes, or dupes of dupes, Slashdot has only had 5 unique stories posted in its entire history.

  2. Gasp! by Jaansen · · Score: 2, Funny

    I didn't know it was possible to meet the same deadline twice. Oh, its a dupe.

  3. The real plan by stox · · Score: 4, Funny

    The documents were submitted in Office 2007 format, with extensions that only run under Vista. Next month, Microsoft will announce the fast adoption of Vista by the European Commission. After all, if the commission is buying so many copies, it must be good. Soon, thereafter, they will announce a record adoption of Vista by leading open source developers.

    Moo Ha Ha

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  4. Re:What about putting the fine in escrow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Thanks for fining us in a recent antitrust case. To save us both transaction fees I suggest we settle outside the courts using an escrow service http://www.123fakescrow.com/
    Simply log into the escrow service we suggested (Which we have already used and it's very secure and stuff).
    We will need a 'processing fee' from you to release the funds.
    We are also willing to throw in an Xbox 360 as a token of good will.

    Love from Microsoft