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Re: [News] [Rival] More Trouble for Microsoft in Europe Foreseen

____/ Martha Adams on Friday 29 February 2008 01:51 : \____

> 
> "7" <website_has_email@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:FUFxj.15142$XI.8527@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> For Microsoft, More European Hurdles Ahead
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | Moreover, the Bush administration has generally taken a favorable
>>> line
>>> | when it comes to mergers, Lande says, because it equates big
>>> business
>>> | with efficiency and benefits for consumers. "The current U.S.
>>> enforcers
>>> | see very little evil out there," when it comes to mergers, Lande
>>> adds.
>>> |
>>> | Officials from the Justice Department declined to comment on the
>>> fine
>>> | and its implications for the "MicroHoo!" deal, as it has come to be
>>> | known. But when Microsoft announced its $44.6 billion hostile bid
>>> for
>>> | Yahoo! (nasdaq: YHOO - news - people ) Feb. 1, a Justice
>>> spokesperson
>>> | said that if the department were to consider the merger, it would
>>> do so
>>> | separately from legal wranglings that have gotten Microsoft in hot
>>> water
>>> | with anti-trust regulators on both sides of the Atlantic in recent
>>> | years.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://www.forbes.com/2008/02/27
>> microsoft-yahoo-eu-tech-ebiz-cx_bw_ag_0227msftfine.html?partner=yahootix
>>
>>
>>
>> I can hardly think its appropriate to consider it separately.
>> A monopoly extending itself through loans and dubious anti-trust
>> activities while under supervision for the similar offenses is hardly
>> the subject of independent due process.
>>
>> Its like a stalker on trial for GBH on supervision order being
>> caught stalking yet another victim. How can it be a separate issue?
>> The outcome of current events is GBH to Yahoo - witness 7 suits.
>> Its time micoshaft was divided up into little pieces.
> 
> "The current U.S. enforcers see very little evil out there" can be
> read in a way entirely consistent with the reality as I see it.
> 
> Titeotwawki -- mha   [2008 Feb 28]

Eye for eye.

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