Evidence Surfaces That MS Violated 2002 Judgement

whoever57 writes "In the Comes Vs. Microsoft case, the plaintiffs believe they have found evidence that Microsoft has failed to fully disclose APIs to competitors. If true, this would mean that Microsoft has violated the 2002 judgement. This information has become available since the plaintiffs have obtained an order allowing them to disclose Microsoft's alleged misbehavior to the DOJ ('appropriate enforcement and compliance authorities')."

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I'm afraid the way EU "handles" Microsoft is doing us all a major disservice.

1. Microsoft is monopoly since the majority of people use Windows/Office, despite the availability of competition (i.e. not exactly a classical monopoly, despite preinstallations and so on).

2. EU decides Microsoft should be treated completely differently to say, OSX, Solaris, Unix and Linux vendors, by demanding the core of Microsoft's IP is forced in the public domain.

3. Competition advances with features Microsoft can't implement due to "antitrust" (remember the craplets that laptop vendors install on Windows machines?).

4. Microsoft fights to keep their IP private, and employ bigger and bigger army of lawyers and spends more and more resources on workarounds.

5. This and insane fines (2 million/day???) affect the bottom line of Microsoft.

6. Microsoft takes further steps to protect their IP so they can get their lost money back from profits. This further cements Microsoft's market position.

7. Go to 1.