On Thursday 23rd of November 2006, Microsoft avoided an immediate daily penalty of up to $3.8 million when it submitted 8500 pages of documentation of Windows server APIs to the European Commission antitrust department only hours before the latest deadline. Commission lawyers, potential licenses and Neil Barrett, a British computer professor and Microsoft’s monitoring trustee, [...]
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Server market changes, competitors receive Microsoft code
Published December 4th, 2006 in Technology. 0 Comments
EC vs. Microsoft, an economic and political dispute (2004-2006):
Published December 4th, 2006 in Technology. 0 Comments2004: The war starts One of the main reasons that the European Commission started looking into this issue is the changes in the server market that occurred during the end of the 90’s. Microsoft’s Active Directory proprietary technology preinstalled in all its desktop operating systems allowed them to work better with Microsoft Server while other [...]