Comments on: EU Taunts Microsoft a Sixth Time

By: “Other Mainframe Company” Files Complaint Against “Other Monopoly” | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:18:36 +0000

[...] of T3’s European complaint comes just days after the European Commission charged Microsoft (MSFT) with illegally tying its Internet Explorer Web browser to Windows. Print Sharevar obj = [...]

By: Tech Whiz Underground » EU Mulling Another Withdrawal From Microsoft Bank & Antitrust Co.

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 04:25:54 +0000

[...] company met its deadline to respond to charges that its bundling of Internet Explorer with Windows violates European competition laws. Just how Microsoft (MSFT) responded isn’t known. The document hasn’t been made public and the [...]

By: EU Mulling Another Withdrawal from Microsoft Bank & Antitrust Co. | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:19:33 +0000

[...] the company met its deadline to respond to charges its bundling of Internet Explorer with Windows violates European competition laws. Just how it responded isn’t known. The document hasn’t been made public and the EC would not [...]

By: EU Mulling Another Withdrawal from Microsoft Bank & Antitrust Co?. | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:18:44 +0000

By: The EU, Google, Mozilla and especially Opera are a bunch of asshats

The EU, Google, Mozilla and especially Opera are a bunch of asshats — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:53:35 +0000

[...] been stewing over this bucketful of crap about the European Union wanting to give Microsoft the good old underhanded grab because Opera is whining about how it can’t get any market share away from Microsoft because of [...]

By: EU to Microsoft: You Like Bundling? I’ll Show You Bundling … | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:46:05 +0000

[...] European Commission said today that if it’s antitrust investigation into Microsoft concludes the company has been abusing its market position, it may force it to bundle multiple [...]

By: If Windows Didn’t Ship With IE, How Would You Download Firefox? | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 21:34:48 +0000

[...] a 20 percent share of the the world-wide browser market and 31 percent of its European segment, Mozilla’s Firefox browser has clearly proven that Microsoft Internet Explorer is not immune [...]

By: “Other Mainframe Company” Files Complaint Against “Other Monopoly” [Digital Daily] | LinkTouch

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:28:54 +0000

[...] of T3’s European complaint comes just days after the European Commission charged Microsoft (MSFT) with illegally tying its Internet Explorer Web browser to [...]

By: Levander Thomas

Levander Thomas — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 23:36:09 +0000

Not knowing much at all about anti-trust laws, my understanding is that in the US there’s no problem with being a monopoly. Monopolies are legal. But, using that monopoly power to manipulate your way into other markets, that’s illegal. Windows is the monopoly. Web browsers is what they’re using that monopoly to manipulate their way into? If that’s what it would be in the US, I’m guessing it’s the same in the EU?

By: EU Taunts Microsoft a Sixth Time [Digital Daily] | heave-ho.org

EU Taunts Microsoft a Sixth Time [Digital Daily] | heave-ho.org — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 14:46:58 +0000

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By: Glenn Manishin

Glenn Manishin — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:08:06 +0000

By the way, _excellent_ headline, John!!

By: Glenn Manishin

Glenn Manishin — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:07:20 +0000

I’ve been a long-time antitrust critic of Microsoft, but even I have a hard time understanding what the EU is doing here. http://glennm.posterous.com/di.....and-what-t. Since IE is no longer dominant and because it is almost impossible to conceive that any competition authority would compel a browser-maker to follow IETF or any other open standards, where’s there even a potential violation? These Statements of Objection are secret, so perhaps there’s some Opera-specific exclusionary conduct involved, but otherwise D.G. Comp. seems to be way off the reservation this time — about a decade too late, I would say.