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apesphere on 17 Jan 2009
From: www.washingtonpost.com
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Microsoft has lost a complaint brought against it to the European Commission over the company's bundling of Internet Explorer with Windows.
Europe has stricter competition law than the US, and the bundling has been held to constitute an abuse of Microsoft's market dominant position in the operating systems market.
Microsoft has been told it has 8 weeks to respond to the decision, after which it must comply with an order to distribute Internat Explorer browser separately from its operating system Windows.
The company previously lost an EU case against its bundling of Windows Media Player with Internet Explorer.
Personally, I find Internet Explorer too slow for my purposes and have converted over completely to using Firefox. Firefox's market share hit 20% last December for the first time. Makes you wonder what it could achieve if the 90% of people who use Windows OS were confronted with an informed choice of browser on Day 1.
Europe has stricter competition law than the US, and the bundling has been held to constitute an abuse of Microsoft's market dominant position in the operating systems market.
Microsoft has been told it has 8 weeks to respond to the decision, after which it must comply with an order to distribute Internat Explorer browser separately from its operating system Windows.
The company previously lost an EU case against its bundling of Windows Media Player with Internet Explorer.
Personally, I find Internet Explorer too slow for my purposes and have converted over completely to using Firefox. Firefox's market share hit 20% last December for the first time. Makes you wonder what it could achieve if the 90% of people who use Windows OS were confronted with an informed choice of browser on Day 1.
Andrew Newton is the author of The Handbook of Compliance: Making Ethics Work in Financial Services
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on 20 Jan 2009
Organizational learning based on longterm vision is evidently not a business practice.
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