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Hungary Officials Raid Microsoft Office

Posted by Zonk on from the can't-keep-its-nose-clean-anywhere dept.

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.'"

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  1. Hungary, Hungary Hippos by jollyreaper · · Score: 4, Funny

    What, did they think Microsoft had something tasty in there?

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  2. What? by realdodgeman · · Score: 3, Funny

    Microsoft uses its monopoly to block others? What is going on here?

  3. Microsoft raids Hungarian government offices... by conspirator57 · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...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!

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  4. Re:First read as.. by nine-times · · Score: 4, Funny

    I read it as the most odd collection of ideas, like, "Hungry Officials RAID 'Microsoft Office XP'.

  5. This sentence caught my eye.... by 8127972 · · Score: 4, Funny

    "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.

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  6. Enough with the MS bashing! by Luke+Dawson · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.
    That doesn't sound anything like the Microsoft I know.
  7. This isn't fair! by davmoo · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wahh!!! Only a handful of comments and still all the good jokes are already taken!

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    1. Re:This isn't fair! by realdodgeman · · Score: 4, Funny

      You are too slow. You shouldn't be using Vista.

  8. Re:On Wii news last night by alcmaeon · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  9. My hovercraft is full of eels. by JesseL · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is all probably because of a misunderstanding caused by a bad Hungarian-English dictionary.

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  10. MS ran afoul of the lArm of the law... by WebCowboy · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.