EU slaps Bill & company...

DeepIron · 09-17-07, 02:22 PM

From Reuters: http://www.reuters.com/article/techn...39839820070917

M$ gets what they deserve... finally.. IMO...

Quote:

A jubilant EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes said the ruling should lead to a "significant drop" in Microsoft's 95 percent market share. Microsoft's top lawyer said it would affect the way the company markets its products in future.

Yeah, one can only hope that now they will actually think about the effect that pushing their cr*p (ME/Vista/etc) onto the public will have.

AVGWarhawk · 09-17-07, 02:46 PM

700 million for M$ is drop in the bucket. But it does get a point across!

The Avon Lady · 09-17-07, 03:16 PM

This is more about the EU's anti-monopoly court showering itself with a hollow victory than getting Microsoft to change 1 single line of code.

Fish · 09-17-07, 04:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Avon Lady

This is more about the EU's anti-monopoly court showering itself with a hollow victory than getting Microsoft to change 1 single line of code.

Quote:

More worryingly for MS, a real feeling in the market has taken hold that it has lost whatever innovative direction it might have had and just has nothing to offer when it comes to competing with Apple's brilliantly realised consumer offerings and Google's complete dominance of the Internet – and increasing office productivity tools. Microsoft is rapidly being painted into a corner – with no real idea of how to get out.
in the market has taken hold that it has lost whatever innovative direction it might have had and just has nothing to offer when it comes to competing with Apple's brilliantly realised consumer offerings and Google's complete dominance of the Internet – and increasing office productivity tools. Microsoft is rapidly being painted into a corner – with no real idea of how to get out.

http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,...331759b,00.htm

The Avon Lady · 09-17-07, 04:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fish

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Avon Lady

This is more about the EU's anti-monopoly court showering itself with a hollow victory than getting Microsoft to change 1 single line of code.

Quote:

More worryingly for MS, a real feeling in the market has taken hold that it has lost whatever innovative direction it might have had and just has nothing to offer when it comes to competing with Apple's brilliantly realised consumer offerings and Google's complete dominance of the Internet – and increasing office productivity tools. Microsoft is rapidly being painted into a corner – with no real idea of how to get out.
in the market has taken hold that it has lost whatever innovative direction it might have had and just has nothing to offer when it comes to competing with Apple's brilliantly realised consumer offerings and Google's complete dominance of the Internet – and increasing office productivity tools. Microsoft is rapidly being painted into a corner – with no real idea of how to get out.

http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,...331759b,00.htm

The really funny thing is that those comments should be grounds to dismiss the EU's case against MS. Not innovative? Can't compete? Losing dominance?

Which was precisely my point.

DeepIron · 09-17-07, 05:50 PM

Quote:

This is more about the EU's anti-monopoly court showering itself with a hollow victory than getting Microsoft to change 1 single line of code.

Bully for them I say! The EU was able to do something that US courts were not... Frankly, M$ is so much of a juggernaut that this will barely slow them down... BUT... It does create a precedent...

The WosMan · 09-17-07, 05:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Avon Lady

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fish

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Avon Lady

This is more about the EU's anti-monopoly court showering itself with a hollow victory than getting Microsoft to change 1 single line of code.

Quote:

More worryingly for MS, a real feeling in the market has taken hold that it has lost whatever innovative direction it might have had and just has nothing to offer when it comes to competing with Apple's brilliantly realised consumer offerings and Google's complete dominance of the Internet – and increasing office productivity tools. Microsoft is rapidly being painted into a corner – with no real idea of how to get out.
in the market has taken hold that it has lost whatever innovative direction it might have had and just has nothing to offer when it comes to competing with Apple's brilliantly realised consumer offerings and Google's complete dominance of the Internet – and increasing office productivity tools. Microsoft is rapidly being painted into a corner – with no real idea of how to get out.

http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,...331759b,00.htm

The really funny thing is that those comments should be grounds to dismiss the EU's case against MS. Not innovative? Can't compete? Losing dominance?

Which was precisely my point.

HAHA, I like you.

09-17-07, 02:46 PM	#2
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,257 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	700 million for M$ is drop in the bucket. But it does get a point across! __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

09-17-07, 03:16 PM	#3
The Avon Lady Über Mom Join Date: May 2005 Location: Jerusalem, Israel Posts: 6,147 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	This is more about the EU's anti-monopoly court showering itself with a hollow victory than getting Microsoft to change 1 single line of code. __________________ "Victory will come to us from the wombs of our women." - Houari Boumedienne, President of Algeria, Speech before the UN, 1974