Microsoft Loses EU Anti-Trust Appeal

Kugrian writes "Microsoft has lost its appeal against a record 497m euro (£343m; $690m) fine imposed by the European Commission in a long-running competition dispute. The European Court of First Instance upheld the ruling that Microsoft had abused its dominant market position."

Microsoft lost its appeal?

[petercruickshank]

I think Microsoft lost its appeal a long time ago...

Re:who cares..,

[Aim Here]

"Every MS machine I've used quickly had firefox installed."

How many had IE uninstalled?

uneven trade

[wonkavader]

If the EU is going to impose sanctions on Microsoft like this, and we are not, then this means that there is essentially a $690 million trade restriction on Microsoft. For Microsoft to behave the same way in the EU that it behaves here, they need to pay a fee of $690 million.

That smacks of protectionism, and we have to retaliate.

Let's charge Microsoft $690 million to behave that way in the US.

Fear the Ballmer!

[ardor]

I feel like a million chairs cried out then were silenced...

Re:This isn't justice: too little, too late

[Chandon Seldon]

As a test, I just tried to beat this pc to death by multitasking the following: excel 2003, excel 2007, word 2003, word 2007, access 2003, access 2007, publisher 2003, publisher 2007, visual studio 2003, visual studio 2005, windows media player 11 (playing an mp3 with visualization running, coldfusion studio, firefox, ie7, opera, photoshop 7, thunderbird, and last but not least, Taskman.exe.

Wait a second. You're telling me that your OS can handle 17 idle processes and one active one when they all fit in RAM? That's amazing. Or at least it would have been in 1972...

Re:Court's press realease

[RealGrouchy]

Kinda reminds me of that quote from Apu in the Simpsons: "Mr. Homer, I have asked you kindly to please quit mangling with my merchandise. You leave me no choice but to ask you again!"

- RG>