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Europe rejects Microsoft's CD offer
It has been reported that the European Commission's antitrust investigators have not been impressed by Microsoft's suggestion of distributing rivals' software. The EC has rejected the software giants offer to settle its antitrust case by putting competitors' software on CD-ROMs sold with computers.
[blockquote]According to a draft decision, the European Commission has decided that Microsoft abused its dominant position, and curbed competition by tying its Media Player program -- used for playing music and videos -- to its Windows operating system. The commission has been considering an order that would tell Microsoft to unbundle Media Player from Windows, which the company insists would wreck the system. Alternatively, it has considered an order which would require Microsoft to bundle in the audio-visual software of rivals, but as a part of the software package on the computer rather than on a separate CD-ROM.
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[blockquote]According to a draft decision, the European Commission has decided that Microsoft abused its dominant position, and curbed competition by tying its Media Player program -- used for playing music and videos -- to its Windows operating system. The commission has been considering an order that would tell Microsoft to unbundle Media Player from Windows, which the company insists would wreck the system. Alternatively, it has considered an order which would require Microsoft to bundle in the audio-visual software of rivals, but as a part of the software package on the computer rather than on a separate CD-ROM.
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[link=http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/windows/0,39020396,39146639,00.htm]The full story[/link]
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