European Commission is set to fine Microsoft over Internet Explorer

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By Lawrence Latif
Fri Mar 01 2013, 12:21


THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION (EC) apparently is set to hand a steep fine later this month for anti-competitive behaviour with Internet Explorer.

Microsoft's integration of Internet Explorer in its Windows operating system landed the US software company in hot water with anti-trust authorities in the US and Europe. The European Commission has alleged that Microsoft broke an earlier agreement to offer rival web browsers on of Windows, and Reuters reports that the EC competition regulator is preparing to levy a fine on Microsoft before the end of March.

Microsoft settled the EC antitrust investigation into its web browser bundling practices in 2009, which resulted in the firm offering a 'browser choice' window in some versions of its Windows operating system. However the firm discontinued that in Windows 8, and one of Reuters' sources said, "The Commission is planning to fine Microsoft before the Easter break."

The European Commission has already levied €1.6bn in fines against Microsoft and if it finds Microsoft non-compliant with European competition regulations a second time the fine could be even higher. Initially Microsoft's pledge to adhere to European competition regulations enabled it avoid a fine that could have been up to 10 percent of its annual revenue.

Microsoft claimed that it failed to honour its own pledge due to a technical error, one which has since been rectified. However the firm's explanation doesn't look like it's going to wash with the European Commission.

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer...icrosoft-over-internet-explorer?WT.rss_f=Home
 
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The Dude said:
What's the big British computer company again?
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We don't have the biggest but we do have the most important.

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Staff at Manchester have been inventing and developing for almost 200 years. However Manchester's most famous invention is the world's first computer. In 1947 Tom Kilburn and Sir Frederick Williams produced 'Baby', the world's first stored-program computer. By 1949 the team had built the full-sized Manchester Mark 1, the first computer to feature the ancestor of what we now know as a hard disc.
 
Lowaicue said:
We don't have the biggest but we do have the most important.

UMIST
Staff at Manchester have been inventing and developing for almost 200 years. However Manchester's most famous invention is the world's first computer. In 1947 Tom Kilburn and Sir Frederick Williams produced 'Baby', the world's first stored-program computer. By 1949 the team had built the full-sized Manchester Mark 1, the first computer to feature the ancestor of what we now know as a hard disc.
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He justs wants to bang on about Apple again, but the share price is sinking like a stone just now. It is being shafted by Samsung and Huawei is waiting in the wings to take it up the rear.

http://www.androidauthority.com/huawei-will-dominate-2013-139930/
 
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Aoxomoxoa said:
He justs wants to bang on about Apple again, but the share price is sinking like a stone just now. It is being shafted by Samsung and Huawei is waiting in the wings to take it up the rear.

http://www.androidauthority.com/huawei-will-dominate-2013-139930/
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Huawei is the interesting one. It is one of the first PRC companies to lauch and promote its own Chinese brand globally. Early steps away from simply copying or making stuff for other people. Actually there are loads of companies doing this now but they represent but a small percentage of the 'China product'.
 
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