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Is EU looking at yesterday's Microsoft? | |
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| Time: 13:17 EST/18:17 GMT | News Source: ZDNet | Posted By: Byron Hinson | ||
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As the European Union considers restrictions aimed at preventing Microsoft from unfairly using its dominance in PC operating systems to gain control of the market for multimedia software, some say the war has already moved on. EU antitrust regulators have concluded that the software giant violated competition rules by "tying" its media player to Windows. Now they're weighing remedies due to be announced this month that could go as far as forcing Microsoft to offer computer makers two different versions of its operating system, one with audio and video playback features and another without them. | ||
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| #1 By 12071 (203.173.25.170) at 3/9/2004 8:28:09 AM |
| #2 You're right, you just don't get it. Coke doesn't not have a monopoly in the soft drink market. McDonalds doesn't have a monpoly in the fast food or even the burger market. And neither of those two companies, as far as I am aware, have been CONVICTED of illegal monopolistic practices! Maybe that is why you don't see those sort of examples, and yes that's also why you don't see Apple being forced to do the same thing with QuickTime. The thing that made it worse for Microsoft in this scenario is the once again tying of the media platform to the Windows platform where they have a Monopoly (loosely speaking). |
| #2 By 1845 (67.161.212.73) at 3/9/2004 4:29:51 PM |
| They haven't been CONVICTED in the EU! |
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