Microsoft raised the possibility on Thursday that it might delay the introduction of its new Windows Vista operating system in Europe, saying it depended on the European Commission's antitrust requirements. The European Commission responded sharply, saying it was "misleading to imply that the Commission could be the cause of delays in launching Vista in Europe".
Microsoft said in a statement it made concrete proposals to the European Union's executive Commission, responding to its concerns about new features in Vista. "Once we receive the Commission's response, we will know whether the Commission is seeking additional product design changes that would result in delay in Europe," it said.
The Commission, the executive arm of the European Union, had a different perspective. "It is not up to the Commission to give Microsoft a green light before Vista is put on the market; it is up to Microsoft to accept and implement its responsibilities as a near-monopolist to ensure full compliance with EU competition rules," a spokesman said. "Microsoft only responded to our latest concerns last week," he said.
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Microsoft said in a statement it made concrete proposals to the European Union's executive Commission, responding to its concerns about new features in Vista. "Once we receive the Commission's response, we will know whether the Commission is seeking additional product design changes that would result in delay in Europe," it said.
The Commission, the executive arm of the European Union, had a different perspective. "It is not up to the Commission to give Microsoft a green light before Vista is put on the market; it is up to Microsoft to accept and implement its responsibilities as a near-monopolist to ensure full compliance with EU competition rules," a spokesman said. "Microsoft only responded to our latest concerns last week," he said.
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i guess ill get a US version anyways...
i can see the EU even cutting features from the non-N version... ugh
-fm
bull**** translations ...... in progress
what we get after translations :
MS we need more money ASAP
Last edited by mrmckeb on 08 Sep 2006 - 13:43
There's no money going after Linux distributors. Unless they choose Red Hat or Fedora or some other relatively popular distro. And they'd still probably only make a few mil, pennies compared to the billions stolen from MS.
What microsoft needs to do is stop building things so deeply into the OS that they can't just be uninstalled. I don't care if it takes my web browser a few extra seconds to start, or if it means I don't get a preview (of often a black square) of the first frame of a video in explorer, I only want the OS to do OS-related things. Media players, web browsers, instant messengers and whatever else that's bundled with it should stay separate.
In an ideal world, Windows would be exactly like that. Maybe the US and such would get a Bonus CD, containing all of those lovely applications like media player and such, that way Microsoft just has to not include it when selling their OS in the EU and instead put a link on people's desktops to download all of that stuff.
Then, everyone wins.
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