Microsoft will learn its fate Monday with respects to the antitrust charges leveled against it.
From Reuters:
A European Union court will decide on Monday whether Microsoft abused its near-monopoly position on the world’s 1 billion computers and servers to push smaller competitors out of the marketplace.
The European Commission ruled in 2004 that Microsoft used its Windows operating system, running on 95 percent of the world’s computers and servers, to choke off competition from rival makers of server software and streaming media software.
Microsoft challenged that decision, asking a special 13-judge Grand Chamber of the Court of First Instance to throw out the Commission’s finding. It said the Commission was interfering with its right to design software as it saw fit.
The court will hand down its ruling on live television on Monday shortly after 9:30 a.m. (3:30 a.m. EDT), focusing on five aspects of the Commission’s 2004 decision.
Gawd, can’t you just taste it?
Tags: EU Antitrust, Microsoft EU Fate
