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EU Official Labels Microsoft's Behavior Unacceptable
InfoWorldMike writes "EU commissioner Neelie Kroes has lashed out at Microsoft in comments to European parliamentarians Thursday, saying it is 'unacceptable' that the company continues to gain market share using tactics that were outlawed in the Commission's 2004 antitrust ruling against the software vendor. 'Three years later Microsoft still hasn't complied with the main demand imposed by the European antitrust ruling: that the company share interoperability information inside Windows at a reasonable price to allow rival makers of workgroup servers to build products that work properly with PCs running Windows.'"
Help competitors build products that work properly with PCs running Windows? Even Microsoft can't do that!
You are reading a copy of my copyrighted post.
They havent figured out how to buy 25+ memberstates at once yet
first, "EU Weighs Copyright Law" in benefit of end users,
then "RIAA Caught in Tough Legal Situation",
after that "Judge Strikes Down COPA, 1998 Online Porn Law"
then "RIAA Balks At Complying With Document Order" and judge is not happy with it
then the story about nebraska university wanting reparations from riaa for wasting their time,
after that, nbc embraces internet revolution in "NBC, News Corp Join to Create YouTube Clone"
then as of now, "EU Official Labels Microsoft's Behavior Unacceptable"
if things and stories in slashdot goes like that im gonna quit sex and just read slashdot.
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impound microsoft products at the port of entry, and no sales at all in the EU.
nothing else will get their attention.
old joke revisited... steve jobs dies and is waiting at the pearly gates. long line. suddenly, with a rush of clouds and chorus of angelic voices, a chair goes skidding across the horizon, and A Power rushes by and through the gates without slowing down.
"hey, what's the big idea?" says jobs.
"Oh, that's God," says St. Peter. "Every once in a while, he thinks he's steve ballmer of microsoft."
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
American food?
Isn't that mostly recipes that originated from other countries, but deep fried?
((I will imagine I will get modded down for flaimbait for this... but im going ahead anyway as its a traditional British joke.))
Indeed, the French provide a valuable service. They let us know when is the best time to surrender..... This would be great, except for they ALWAYS tell us to surrender.
Why do people in the US buy German cars, you'd think they'd be able to make there own premium brand cars.
We do make our own premium brand cars. However, the way our car manufactures make their profits is different than most other countries' car manufacturers. In other countries, car manufacturers make their money on the sales of automobiles. In order to increase profits, they make a very good product and hope to sell it to more people. In the US, car manufactures rely on "Patriotic Americans" to buy American made cars. They make these cars poorly because their real profit is made when the cars are taken in for repair. This is the strategy that got Chrysler out of debt in the 80's, and is still going strong today (Trust me, I bought my last American made car in 2004. Never again). Man, I miss my Toyota Corolla.