● 02.08.08

●● Victory! EU Antitrust Officials Go After Microsoft for Fiddling with ISO

Posted in Europe, Fraud, ISO, Microsoft, Open XML at 6:22 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

There’s hope left for ISO

Finally we have some good news, for a change. After many months (almost years) of protesting against ballot-stuffing, briberies, threats and lies, the European Commission is responding. Microsoft is now under investigation for its OOXML abuses.

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European regulators are examining whether Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Corp violated antitrust laws during a struggle last year to ratify its Office software file format as an international standard, the Wall Street Journal reported.

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EU antitrust officials have asked Microsoft for information about its activities in the standards-setting process – an early step in an investigation – and are stepping up scrutiny of the issue, people familiar with the matter told the newspaper.

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Personally, I foresaw some legal action, but antitrust scrutiny would be even more effective. It might also have Microsoft’s well-document behaviour brought to the mainstream media’s attention, a la Netscape trial. █

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