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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. what about there boot loader lock in by Joe_Dragon · · Score: 5, Insightful

    what about there boot loader lock in that is even bigger.

  2. Sanction wouldn't be about the bug by DragonWriter · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you fine a company because of a bug in their software this is really not understanding how software development works.

    Any sanctions won't be for "a bug in their software". They will be for:
    1) Violating the agreement they made in place of the fine for the past violation, and
    2) Filing a false declaration of compliance with the agreement in December 2011.

    When you have a legal obligation to do something, and when you declare in an official legal document that you have, in fact, done what you had an obligation to do, well, the fact that you didn't do what you had an obligation to do and hadn't actually verified that you had before you made the legal declaration has consequences.