EC to Microsoft: Assume the position
InternetNews | at | by Mike
Microsoft executives may have been hoping that the company's troubles with the European Commission were finally over after it cried "uncle" and dropped all further appeals in October over the EC's 2004 antitrust ruling.
That would have been too easy.
Monday, the EC announced it has launched two new probes into the company's business practices. However, whether the EC will yet again drop the hammer on Microsoft again is open to debate.
"It is clear that the EC is flexing its muscles," Tim Bajarin, president of tech consultancy Creative Strategies, told InternetNews.com. But the EC's next move isn't at all clear.