Roy Schestowitz wrote:
__/ [ Handover Phist ] on Friday 28 April 2006 16:08 \__
Roy Schestowitz :
Microsoft 'double locked market'
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| Microsoft broke antitrust laws by preventing rivals from entering two
| key computer markets, an EU lawyer said at the final day of a court
| case.
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| Firstly, by using its dominance in the market for personal computers,
| Microsoft secured 60% of the market for group servers, the key way
| office computers communicate.
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| Secondly, Microsoft stopped giving other firms the information they
| needed to make their servers compatible with Microsoft's windows
| operating system.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4953682.stm
This is news? MS has been bending people over for two decades!
It was more of a key quote from the article. I thought about nesting the
subject line in between double quotes, but changed my mind. Wasn't Microsoft
declared an illegal/convicted monopoly back in 1999 or 2001? I believe the
context was Netscape Navigator.
They skated on the browser tying charges, but they were found to
have illegally maintained their monopoly.
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Rick
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