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EU to Conduct Separate Probe into Microsoft
Posted by Paul Szynol on Monday, November 04 @ 10:20:13 EST Antitrust
Microsoft's attorneys have suggested that the U.S. settlement should be the guiding light for litigation in Europe, but the European Commission will not adopt wholesale the terms approved by U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly. The EU has separate facts to consider, and different laws to apply; and officials in Europe intend to litigate on their own terms.
The European Commission is investigating Microsoft's move into the market for low-end servers, the hubs of computer networks. Competition Commissioner Mario Monti also is looking at whether Microsoft's bundling of Media Player software with Windows gives it an unfair advantage (full story here).
The temporarily suspended probe, which began in 1998 after a complaint by Sun, will now resume.

Reuters report is here.

 
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