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Hungary Officials Raid Microsoft Office
Steve writes "Hungarian government officers raided the offices of a Microsoft subsidiary this week, as part of a probe into the company's relationship with large software distributors. From the article: 'According to the statement, Microsoft used sales conditions and offered software distributors incentives - described as loyalty discounts - so they wouldn't offer clients anything but Microsoft Office products. Such behavior could lead to the exclusion of competitive products from the market and violate European Union rules, according to the authority known as the GVH.'"
What, did they think Microsoft had something tasty in there?
Kwisatz Haderach
Sell the spice to CHOAM
This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
Now, tell me where your mother****in cookies are!! I'm Hungary!
Sorry, couldn't resist..
which is totally what she said
First read as "Hungry Officials Raid Microsoft Office". Well, buy them a pizza.
That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
Microsoft uses its monopoly to block others? What is going on here?
...for anti-anti-competitive practices. According to a Microsoft spokesperson, "We are troubled by evidence of direct resistance to Microsoft corporate directives."
In other news, Microsoft is merging with the RIAA and MPAA to reform the Dutch East India Company. Pirates beware!
"If still these truths be held to be
Self evident."
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
"Microsoft used sales conditions and offered software distributors incentives - described as loyalty discounts - so they wouldn't offer clients anything but Microsoft Office products. "
And if that didn't work, then they brought out the chairs.
This is my opinion. To make sure you don't steal it, it's covered by the DMCA.
read about this on my wii last night Be careful. If you read too much on your wii you could go blind!
Wahh!!! Only a handful of comments and still all the good jokes are already taken!
I want a new quote. One that won't spill. One that don't cost too much. Or come in a pill.
So much for Hungarian notation.
Microsoft hasn't done anything illegal, but we are a former Stalinist dictatorship, so we just raid people's businesses and homes for the fun of it and to keep them on their toes. It's all the rage. Even the U.S. is getting in on the game. We call it CHEKA-chic.
It's Microsoft that introduced the (in)famous Hungary notation.
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Hungary officials obviously weren't pleased
And I can't resist to link to How to write unmaintainable code, a must read if you didn't read it already
I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of killer sig, which this margin is too narrow to contain.
This is all probably because of a misunderstanding caused by a bad Hungarian-English dictionary.
"Prefiero morir de pie que vivir siempre arrodillado!"
by offering a strOfBribes to nVendors to successfully fnDominateMarket.
The police pFinger at MS for performing an illegal operation, however MS contends that bAllegations == False.
Nah, they had reports from a reliable intelligence source that there are illegal weapons of mass destruction in the office, so they just sent in the army to grab them, and do a little democratic clean-up in that monopolistic snake-pit. ;)