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Chinese Government Probes Microsoft For Breaches of Monopoly Law

DroidJason1 writes The Chinese government is investigating Microsoft for possible breaches of anti-monopoly laws, following a series of surprise visits to Redmond's offices in cities across China on Monday. These surprise visits were part of China's ongoing investigation [warning: WSJ paywall], and were based on security complaints about Microsoft's Windows operating system and Office productivity suite. Results from an earlier inspection apparently were not enough to clear Microsoft of suspicion of anti-competitive behavior. Microsoft's alleged anti-monopoly behavior is a criminal matter, so if found guilty, the software giant could face steep fines as well as other sanctions.

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  1. Pot - Kettle by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is like being accused of overeating by the world's biggest fat man.

  2. Re:So China is going to do by Khyber · · Score: 4, Funny

    RMS doesn't do guns because only one or two are open-source, and he's seen the code and knows they're shitty.

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    Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
  3. So ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    So all six people in China who purchased software from Microsoft get a full refund and an apology?

    Sounds like a 'nothing to see here' storey to me.