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Microsoft Gives In To the EU

Posted by kdawson on from the playing-nice dept.

An anonymous reader writes with word that Redmond Developer News is reporting that Microsoft has given in to EU threats of further fines. The company has opened up a whole host of protocols, including the Exchange protocol, under a license, the terms of which are not known. No other news outlet has picked up this story so far.

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  1. The article is wrong! by jkrise · · Score: 4, Informative

    From TFA: Microsoft is making key communications protocols available for license , so that third parties, including competitors, can link into the company's newest enterprise products...

    The key communications protocols are the ones where Microsoft has a monopoly position... namely,

    The protocols by which a Windows 95 / 98 / NT / 2000 PC joins and authenticates with the Domain Controller.
    NTFS, Active Drirectory, SMB etc. would be some other protocls of interest.

    To my knowledge, Exchange Server, Share Point etc. are not areas of monopoly for Microsoft.

    The article is plain WRONG. It might be some more PR spin by MS as usual, though. You want us to open up our protocols? Okay... here's how Dynamics CRM talks to SharePoint Portal! One thinks the EU inspectors will not be susceptible to such tricks.

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