M
Marco Desloovere
| Decision looms in Microsoft-EU row
|
| The long-running dispute between Microsoft and the European Union will
| finally be decided on Monday.
|
| Three years ago, the European Union issued an anti-trust ruling against
| Microsoft for what it said was an illegal abuse of Microsoft's
| near-monopoly in the computer operating system market.
|
| It ordered the company to change its business practices.
|
| It also imposed the highest fine in European history - almost
| half-a-billion euros.
|
| On Monday morning, Europe's second-highest court will deliver a ruling
| that could shape the rules of competition law in the bloc for decades to
| come.
|
| The two sides are agreed it's a landmark case. But they agree on little
| else.
These are the first lines of the following fairly lengthy article:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6994631.stm
Just FYI.
Marco
|
| The long-running dispute between Microsoft and the European Union will
| finally be decided on Monday.
|
| Three years ago, the European Union issued an anti-trust ruling against
| Microsoft for what it said was an illegal abuse of Microsoft's
| near-monopoly in the computer operating system market.
|
| It ordered the company to change its business practices.
|
| It also imposed the highest fine in European history - almost
| half-a-billion euros.
|
| On Monday morning, Europe's second-highest court will deliver a ruling
| that could shape the rules of competition law in the bloc for decades to
| come.
|
| The two sides are agreed it's a landmark case. But they agree on little
| else.
These are the first lines of the following fairly lengthy article:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6994631.stm
Just FYI.
Marco