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  EU report details Microsoft's thinking
Time: 12:09 EST/17:09 GMT | News Source: ZDNet | Posted By: Todd Richardson

The European Commission's report on Microsoft sheds new light on a corporate culture and business practices that led regulators to sanction the company last month for anticompetitive practices. The 300-page document delves in part into internal e-mails that executives of the software maker have written in recent years, often with a strikingly blunt perspective on the weaknesses of Microsoft's software. In a section describing the way that Microsoft's Windows operating system has become a "must-carry" product for PC vendors, the commission quotes from an internal memo drafted for Chairman Bill Gates by C++ general manager Aaron Contorer in 1997.

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