1. Microsoft Faces Tough Penalties In EU's Ruling.
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Mitchener, Brandon, Kanter, James, Clark, Don, McWilliams, Gary, Guth, Robert A., and Wilke, John R.
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ANTITRUST law , *ANTITRUST investigations , *TRADE regulation , *COMPUTER operating systems , *WINDOWS (Graphical user interfaces) , *COMPUTER software industry , *COMPUTER software , *COMPUTER industry , *ACTIONS & defenses (Law) - Abstract
Reports Microsoft Corp. has failed in last-minute negotiations to reach an accord on its business practices with European antitrust regulators and could face rulings that affect the way it sells software for an array of products, from servers to mobile phones. When the European Commission (EC) is expected to order Microsoft to offer versions of its Windows operating system without its Media Player software and release information related to Windows to allow rival companies, like Sun Microsystems Inc. and Novell Inc., to create software that will run as well on Windows as Microsoft's own software; View of author that the EC's ruling will extend far beyond Europe and the pact Microsoft agreed to in a 2001 settlement in the U.S.; Discussion of the settlement negotiations between Microsoft's Steve Ballmer and the EC's Mario Monti.
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- 2004