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Microsoft in deep shit in Europe
Xeen:
quote:Originally posted by Refalm:
I deleted iexplore.exe on Windows XP from Linux. After I booted Windows XP, it just came back.
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Well in my case that wouldn't happen cause I always have System File Protection disabled and cleared. So it wouldn't have anywhere to copy it back from.
Commander:
$600 mil is nothing to MS
Xeen:
The EU has made its final decision on the Microsoft case:
MS has been fined a record $631 Million (loose change for MS unfortunately). Why couldn't they fine them a few billion?
MS has 90 days to produce a version of Windows without Media Player integrated in.
Microsoft will (not surprisingly) appeal the ruling to European Court of First Instance in Luxembourg. Sigh...another couple years of argument. By the time the appeal case is complete, Longhorn will be out and the ruling will be pointless.
mobrien_12:
Now the Washington state senator is getting involved. From groklaw
quote:Excerpt from the article
Somebody doesn't like the EU Commission finding Microsoft guilty of antitrust violations and fining the company. The Senator from Microsoft's home state, Patty Murray, is speaking out against the EU Commission's decision, which is being officially announced today:
"'This ruling is yet another example of the EU assaulting a successful American industry and policies that support our economic growth,' said U.S. Senator Patty Murray, a Democrat from Microsoft's home state, Washington. . . .
"Murray called on the Bush administration to 'engage' the EU in settling the case. 'The EU has now directly attacked the authority of the United States and our economy in general,' she said in a statement. 'American jobs and economic interests are threatened,' she said."
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WMD:
quote:"'This ruling is yet another example of the EU assaulting a successful American industry and policies that support our economic growth,' said U.S. Senator Patty Murray, a Democrat from Microsoft's home state, Washington. . . .
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"policies that support economic growth" = monopoly?
Utter bullshit.
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