Post #12,617
10/10/01 11:12:54 AM
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EU investigation not very happy with Microsoft either
[link|http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7467914.html?tag=mn_hd|EU: Microsoft Obstructed Investigation] The document accused Microsoft of having sought to obstruct the Commission's investigation by misleading those looking into the situation, according to the source. Regards,
-scott anderson
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Post #12,630
10/10/01 12:04:30 PM
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Is it still astroturf when it's presented to a court?
This isn't quite the same as letters to the editor. Wouldn't this be qualified as perjury?
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The document said the company presented 34 letters from companies purportedly supporting Microsoft, which were either written by Microsoft itself or solicited without the companies being told what use Microsoft expected to make of them, the source said.
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(emphasis mine)
For every human problem, there is a neat, simple solution;
and it is always wrong
H. L. Mencken, Mencken's Metalaw
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Post #12,676
10/10/01 2:09:03 PM
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Even better: Microsoft may face huge fine
[link|http://www.msnbc.com/news/640746.asp|http://www.msnbc.com/news/640746.asp]
"European antitrust enforcers may seek a massive fine from Microsoft Corp. and demand that it drop some features from its dominant Windows software, according to a confidential European Commission document outlining its case."
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Post #12,679
10/10/01 2:21:57 PM
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House of cards...Meet fresh gale!
[link|http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22149.html|The Reg also checks in]
You gotta love it (unless, of course, you're Bill Gates or M. Merlin)
jb4
(Resistance is not futile...)
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Post #12,797
10/10/01 10:30:21 PM
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Or me.
Considering I depend on them for a paycheck right now - and if they go tits up, I'm REALLY screwed, having much less practical "experience" than the rest of the tech horde up here...
I'd like them to get their just desserts, I just don't want to get caught in it.
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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Post #13,266
10/15/01 12:58:20 AM
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Re: Sympathise with you. On a humerous note re anthrax
you can take the view that you work for such a tough bunch that apart from chewing up competitors & partners & spitting out the bits - MS folk then gargle with anthrax as a breath freshener (grin)
Doug M
(intended as humour on the basis no one was affected by the attempt - there are just too tough)
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Post #13,330
10/15/01 12:00:43 PM
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lol!
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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Post #12,720
10/10/01 4:54:28 PM
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Re: EU investigation not very happy
The server issues make a certain amount of sense regardless of whether they are valid but the Windows Media Player issue baffles me
WMP was in 95, 98, NT etc
Was it in 3.1? I don't recall
So it was Ok to bundle it when it was not that useful but now that it's good it is criminal?
Sounds like bullshit to me
A
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Post #12,724
10/10/01 5:12:38 PM
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Good point
Maybe they're looking at how other media software, like Quicktime, get broken?
Darrell Spice, Jr.
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Post #12,726
10/10/01 5:20:09 PM
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Not really.
Back then, there wasn't a "market" for those things, firstly.
Now, its a huge up and coming market - and getting headed off by......
Secondly, this is the *EU* discussing things, I think Andy's confused that with the DoJ trial.
Yet thirdly, (in response to Andy directly), its OK to do things when you're not a monopoly that aren't OK when you are.
Addison
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