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EU Investigating Microsoft Over IE Bundling Again

Posted by Unknown on from the only-28-million-people dept.

vu1986 writes, quoting GigaOm: "Microsoft has confessed to violating its browser choice agreement with European antitrust regulators, after they opened up a fresh investigation into the company's behavior. This is a big deal, not least because it means the company could now face a fine of up to 10 percent of its annual turnover — $7 billion at last count." Microsoft agreed in 2009 to inform users they could install other browsers. They did, mostly, but Windows 7SP1 users didn't get the software update. Microsoft is claiming it was just a software bug, and have taken actions to fix it.

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  1. Re:So they going to fine Apple too? by Dupple · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's not the same set of circumstances.

    Apple isn't a monopoly and it has not abused a monopoly position, no where near the same market share as microsoft

    The choice people have now regarding browsers could be argued is a result of this litigation by the EU. A good over view is here

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_Microsoft_competition_case

    More specifically here

    http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/09/15&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

    and here

    http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/04/382&format=HTML&aged=1&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

    I'm probably gonna get modded Troll or something

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