'Profound' effect seen by EC from Microsoft compliance
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A European Commission leader said its 2004 antitrust ruling against Microsoft will greatly influence the software industry.
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The acquisition by Microsoft and Time Warner of a company with a significant portfolio of patents covering digital rights management technologies generates scrutiny by European antitrust regulators. The main focus of the investigation: Microsoft. By Wendy M. Grossman.
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InfoWorld - Changes Microsoft will make to its business practices to comply with the 2004 European Commission antitrust ruling will "profoundly affect the software industry," European competition commissioner Neelie Kroes said Monday.
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The European Commission (EC), which fined Microsoft a record 497 million euros (US$625.50 million) this year for abusing its dominant position, on Monday vowed to continue pursuing the US software group through the courts for anti-competitive behavior.
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Just because Microsoft has said it will comply immediately with a European Court judge&#39;s order to follow specified antitrust remedies doesn&#39;t mean life will be a bowl of cherries for Microsoft&#39;s partners, developers and even its competitors.
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New report on offshoring's implications from the British Computer Society.
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The European Commission has accepted a wide-ranging series of commitments from The Coca-Cola Co. and its bottlers relating to various commercial practices that have been under investigation since 1999.
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Microsoft filed revised documents with  the European Commission on Thursday aimed at complying with a  landmark antitrust decision from 2004, the European Commission  said.
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Microsoft Corp. tried to impress European antitrust regulators  with research that shows  the immense effect that the launch of  Windows Vista next year will have on Europe's IT industry and the broader economy.
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Software giant confirms that a critical vulnerability exists in Microsoft Office 2000.
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When a European court hands down its  landmark Microsoft  antitrust decision next Monday, at  stake will be nothing less than the power of the European  Commission to regulate the high-tech industry.
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This morning's ruling from the European Court of First Instance dissects both Microsoft's and the European Commission's arguments with logical, plain-spoken precision. It makes the point that Microsoft doesn't get to decide what "interoperability," "bundling," and "evolution" mean. But neither does the EC.
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The European Commission launches new investigations into whether Microsoft breaks anti-competition laws.
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After Microsoft's entry into the market, consumer security software has become cheaper and more comprehensive.
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The acquisition of EOP has a ripple effect throughout the industry.
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Status report notes compliance, but European Union continues to study Vista specs.
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Like many, I was pretty shocked by the recent Microsoft-EU deal to settle the long-running investigation into interoperability issues.  This was not so much because of the way Microsoft has used every kind of delaying tactic it could before eventually agreeing (for the nth time) to try harder in the future.  My real dismay was provoked by the gap between appearance and reality â a chasm that I think bodes ill for the future of open source. read more