Despite complaining this month that it wanted more time, Microsoft Corp. filed its response to European Union antitrust charges just before the deadline expired, an EU spokeswoman said Monday.
"We've received the reply which we will now be reviewing," said Amelia Torres, antitrust spokeswoman at the European Commission.
Neither Microsoft nor the EU would comment on its contents.
The EU gave the U.S. software giant an extra two weeks to rebut the latest charges that it was illegally trying to extend its dominance with Windows operating systems into markets for servers and multimedia players.
Microsoft, which had been seeking a longer extension, expressed disappointment early this month at the decision, but said it would "work hard to meet the new deadline."
The 4-year-old case is expected to result in fines, which could reach about US$3 billion, as well as possible orders to disclose more of its prized software code to rivals and change how it sells Windows software. There is no deadline for a decision.
News source: CNN
"We've received the reply which we will now be reviewing," said Amelia Torres, antitrust spokeswoman at the European Commission.
Neither Microsoft nor the EU would comment on its contents.
The EU gave the U.S. software giant an extra two weeks to rebut the latest charges that it was illegally trying to extend its dominance with Windows operating systems into markets for servers and multimedia players.
Microsoft, which had been seeking a longer extension, expressed disappointment early this month at the decision, but said it would "work hard to meet the new deadline."
The 4-year-old case is expected to result in fines, which could reach about US$3 billion, as well as possible orders to disclose more of its prized software code to rivals and change how it sells Windows software. There is no deadline for a decision.
News source: CNN
In the trademark case, the owner of the name "Bourse des vols" (Market for Flights), an Internet travel agent, wanted Google to stop allowing competitors to include "Bourse des vols" as a term that would generate an advertisement and link to their own site that Internet searchers could click on.
Google had refused, arguing its French arm was not responsible, that the term bourse des vols was not protected by a valid trademark and that the issue was technological and could not be resolved.
But the court found for the plaintiff on all three issues, said Fabrice Dariot, who owns the trademark to "Bourse des Vols" and sued Google. Dariot said that while the fine was small, the decision could be important.
"It was as though the Internet and the real world were two different worlds, but this ruling shows that there is only one world," he said in an interview. "It shows that the Internet will have to respect intellectual property rights."
The result of the decision would be that any time the term "Bourse des Vols" was typed in, only ads for that specific site could be posted with the search results, Dariot said.
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