Sonia Arrison

EU to Microsoft: hand over $357 million USD

EU regulators today fined Microsoft 280.5 million Euros ($357 million USD) for supposedly not complying with their demands. Of course, the regulator’s demands are currently in the appeals process and the Commission dragged their heels in making their demands clear, but still, they argue that it’s Microsoft’s fault. That seems pretty unfair, and prompted MS’s General Counsel to say, rather diplomatically (imagine if Steve Jobs were in this position!), that “the real issue here is not about compliance, it’s about clarity.” Apparently, Microsoft has over 300 employees working around the clock to satisfy the EU bureaucrats who seem to know little about the tech industry (see my pervious posts on this, especially those about the product the Eurocrats designed that no one wanted to buy). What a mess.

July 12, 2006 | Comments |

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    Well, I was gonna let this go, but this is the 2nd time you've
    posted about this. I like this blog, and someone needs to point out
    stuff like this.




    You claim the deadline hasn't passed, yet every source I've read says
    the deadline was December 15, 2005. I reference the following links:


    http://news.zdnet.com/...........


    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/............


    http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/news/..........


    If you have evidence to the contrary, please post it. I searched your
    article for "deadline", and couldn't find anywhere an actual date in
    the future.





    So I don't understand why you say the deadline hasn't passed.





    In any event, we all know MS is tasked with doing the near impossible.
    However, it should be possible for any decent software company whose
    source base is more organized than a spaghetti bowl. And that's really
    the whole point. They brought this on themselves.





    I mean no disrespect and don't want to start a flame, but I have
    serious questions with your claim about the deadline date. Please
    respond if you have some reference that says something different.


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