Microsoft is ready to remove media player for EU
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Microsoft Corp. will be ready to comply with the European Commission&#39;s demands for changes to its Windows operating systems if a European court rejects its request for the measures to be suspended, a spokesman for the company said Monday.
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Microsoft's legal fight against EU antitrust penalties enters its second day as focus turns to its media player.
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Analysts believe that European consumers will not be pleased by a European Union judge&#39;s decision to force Microsoft to sell a version of its Windows operating system without Windows Media Player.
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Microsoft MSFT.O said on Tuesday   that it hopes the European Commission will not require the   removal of important security features in Europe for its new   Windows Vista operating system.
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Microsoft Corp. officials for the  first time have confirmed that the software giant is readying a  portable music player and integrated service, shedding new  light on a topic that has fueled rampant speculation in news  reports and blog postings for weeks.
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So-called FairUse program breaks copy protection on Windows Media Player.
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Despite pleas from fair-use advocates, Microsoft plans to patch an application that can strip Windows Media files of potentially restrictive DRM (digital rights management) technology.
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p2pnet.net News:- Europeans will be able to buy a leaned-down version of Microsoft Windows, stripped of its music and video player, and the company will have to license out secret information to its competitors.
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Microsoft  said on Tuesday  that it hopes the European Commission will not require the  removal of important security features in Europe for its new  Windows Vista operating system.
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BRUSSELS: A European Union court ruled yesterday that Microsoft must immediately divulge some trade secrets to competitors and produce a version of its flagship Windows operating system stripped of the program that plays music and video.
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Microsoft will be ready to comply with European Commission demands for changes to its Windows operating systems if a European court does not suspend the antitrust remedy, a company spokesman said today.
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Stocks to watch on Friday: MICROSOFT CORP. : The world's largest software maker will suffer serious harm if it is forced to provide a version of Windows without Windows Media Player audio-visual software, its lawyer told a European Union court.
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Papering over the cracks Microsoft is working on closing a loophole that creates a means to strip usage restriction from music files wrapped in its DRM technology. A program called FairUse4WM, recently posted on the internet, allows users to bypass Microsoft's Digital Rights Management (DRM) system.â¦
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US software giant Microsoft insisted Friday that nobody would want to buy its Windows operating system without Media Player, in an appeal against an EU ruling that it had abused its market dominance.
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LUXEMBOURG, Oct. 1 -- A European judge today cast a skeptical eye on whether Microsoft Corp. should be forced to create two versions of its Windows operating system, one with its program for playing digital music and videos and one without.
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After months of hearings, Microsoft loses EU court battle and must strip Media Player, share code. Also: Federal judge refuses spammer's guilty plea.... Mobile companies dispute evidence that phone radiation damages DNA.... and more.
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InfoWorld - Microsoft was considered to have escaped lightly after the European Commission found it guilty in 2004 of bundling its media player software with Windows to the detriment of competition. It was ordered to sell a second version of Windows in Europe without its media player, but the new version was priced the same, few PC makers stocked it and the product effectively bombed in the market.