Microsoft forced to bow
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Microsoft was dealt a heavy blow yesterday when a senior European judge upheld the anti-trust sanctions imposed on it earlier this year by the European Commission.
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Microsoft is on the move again. As it has in the past, the software giant is trying to elbow aside rivals who have pioneered new markets.
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Announcements by Yahoo and Google show that Microsoft faces challenges to its business software franchises.
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Redmond's desktop software dominance faces an uprising of alternatives from the likes of IBM, Google and Yahoo.
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Microsoft has made substantial concessions to the European Commission, finally bringing the company into compliance with a&#160;2004 antitrust ruling, the Commission said Monday.&quot;Microsoft has finally agreed to three substantial changes to bring them into compliance with the decision,&quot; the Commission said in a statement.Following the 2004 ruling, Microsoft paid a fine of &#8364;497 million (around $600 million) and published a version of its Windows XP operating system without a bundled media player. The Commission also ordered a third remedy, that Microsoft publish details of the communications protocols used by its server operating system products to communicate with one another and with its desktop clients.The Commission was initially&#160;unhappy with Microsoft&#39;s response&#160;to the third remedy, fining it an additional &#8364;280.5 million last year, but has now reached agreement with the company. One of the sticking points was how open source software developers could make use of the communications protocol information Microsoft published.The first change the company has agreed to is that open source software developers will be able to access and use the interoperability information, as required in the 2004 ruling.Second, the royalties payable for this information will be reduced to a nominal one-off payment of &#8364;10,000 and third, the royalties for a worldwide license, including patents, will be sharply reduced, the Commission said.
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NEW YORK - A row over intellectual property claims from Microsoft Corp. has dealt a fatal blow to an ambitious effort by Internet engineers to create a technical standard for curbing junk e-mail...
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When it comes to exhorting its hordes of hardware vendors to get their drivers right with new versions of its Windows operating system, Microsoft looks less like an iron-fisted ruler and more like a beleaguered parent.
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Opinion: Unbundling integrated pieces of Windows just might be the bitter pill that Microsoft needs. There&#39;s no Christmas present that Microsoft officials want more than the European Union&#39;s remedies to be
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Microsoft has been forced to fight for its lucrative Asian market, following government agreements to switch to other open-source software.
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The court's order is the first time since antitrust challenges to Microsoft began that the company will be forced to alter its strategy of bundling software.
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European regulators won a big court victory this week but CNET News.com's Charles Cooper says Microsoft must fend off a bigger challenge.
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A court's order is the first time since antitrust challenges to Microsoft began that the company will be forced to alter its strategy of bundling software.
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Microsoft's attempt to get EU antitrust penalties against it suspended turns to the question of its media player.
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Pots and kettles go flying With an IPO and a major server virtualization battle looming, VMware has turned aggressive in its fight with Microsoft.â¦
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Business & money: Microsoft is at the centre of an embarrassing row over an attempt by a lobby firm strongly linked with the Seattle computer giant to rally opposition against rival Google's proposed acqusition of internet marketing firm DoubleClick.
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Microsoft's Windows platform is losing traction as a target for application developers in North America.
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Purchasing a permanent license to its pioneering OS is a shrewd move.