Decision time for Microsoft's EU appeal
InternetNews | at | by Mike
For Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, the clock must be ticking agonizingly slowly down towards half past midnight Redmond time this coming Monday morning.
That is when the European Court of First Instance, or CFI, in Luxembourg plans to hand down its long-anticipated ruling on Microsoft's appeal of its European Commission antitrust case. (That will be 9:30 a.m. local time in Luxembourg or 3:30 a.m. Eastern time.) Microsoft had appealed the EC's March 2004 decision that the company was "in breach of European competition law through the abuse of a dominant market position," according to a Microsoft timeline of the case.