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UK Agency Files OOXML Complaint, EU Demurs

Posted by kdawson on from the we-know-we-know-already dept.

Christopher Blanc writes to let us know that although BECTA, the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency, has filed a complaint with EU regulators about Microsoft's business practices, the European Commission won't be doing anything particular about it. BECTA claimed that the OOXML format discourages competition. BECTA lodged a similar complaint with the UK Office of Fair Trading last October. A Commission press officer said, "We are already looking into the issues raised in that complaint already and we are not treating it as a formal complaint to us."

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  1. 1st by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    1st post

  2. The AFTERSHOCKS are a bitch by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Live, from ChinA - the Olympics of earthquake survival. All bets are on the chinese to win. Rumours are Tibet will sneak in a victory, however.

  3. spo86e by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    AASOCIATION OF

  4. Discouraging competition by thethibs · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The Ferrari V-12 engine discourages competition. Quick! Someone call the European Commission!

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