MS will not appeal against the EU...

[floke]

About time too!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7056288.stm

[southernman]

Job well done by the EU!

If only the US legislature and judicial branch would follow suit... or have done it when they had a perfect opportunity.

:shock:

In addition, it will also allow the data to go to open source software developers. [-o<

[LanDan]

think good old Neelie Smit kroes is doing a good job on this one,

[smoker]

even microsoft can't afford to lose 497 million euros too often, lol,

[Andrewie]

The End.

Canada, USA???

[some_random_noob]

It's only money. They still have a monopoly. Is this EU action actually achieving anything noticable?

[distroman]

It's only money. They still have a monopoly. Is this EU action actually achieving anything noticable?
It makes for a point, if it makes a difference who knows?

[some_random_noob]

It makes for a point, if it makes a difference who knows?

Well it must be doing something. If the EU can force MS to pay billions of dollars it has to leave a mark at some point - it's quite agressive action. The thing is, will they start to regulate more instead of doing fines? That is where the real damage will happen.

[kamaboko]

What is going to happen is that instead of negotiating individual contracts with other vendors to use MS technology, MS will now have flat fees; everyone pays the same. All they have to do is break up each little technology into a flat fee product and whalaa...back to business as usual. It all started with Novell....and it's called selective immunity for those that can afford it.

[Pumalite]

I found this in the New York Times this morning:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/23/technology/23soft.html?ref=technology

[n3tfury]

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=587016