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Microsoft Under Third EU Investigation for OOXML
The Wall Street Journal and Information Week reported this morning that EU regulators have announced a third investigation into Microsoft's conduct on the desktop. This latest action demonstrates that while the EU has settled the case against Microsoft that ran for almost a decade, it remains as suspicious as ever regarding the software vendor's conduct, notwithstanding Microsoft's less combative stance in recent years. The news can be found in a story reported by Charles Forelle bylined in Brussells this morning. According to the Journal, the investigation will focus on whether Microsoft 'violated antitrust laws during a struggle last year to ratify its Office
software file format as an international standard.' The article also says that the regulators are 'stepping up scrutiny of the issue.'
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Poor Microsoft, always under attack from all sides. How is the poor little thing to survive? Won't someone please think of the corporation?
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They must be absolutely TERRIFIED now!
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EU suggested that microsoft bribe standards bodies to buy votes in favour of OOXML?
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This is true; I live in Brussels and I have immense difficulty leaving my house and doing anything in this city due to the thousands of plots of sprouts (or as they like to call them here, cabbages). You have to be so careful where you step!