Microsoft: Our Troubles with the EU are Over
WinInfo | at | by Mike
This is either a bit of unwarranted optimism or perhaps Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer knows more than he is letting on. Ballmer said Monday that the software giant's legal troubles in the European Union were at an end. Ballmer made the comments at the CeBIT computer trade show this week in Hannover, Germany.
"We received a fine last week for some interoperability issues in the past," he said. "I think it is well understood that with the agreements that we reached with the European Commission last fall, those issues are behind us. Of course we hope the interoperability principles prove valuable in the future, but that we will leave up to the Commission.