[Sussex] Europe finds MS guilty, but wonders what to do about it

[Andrew Guard]

The European Commission's experts have decided they should do something
about Microsoft, but face two problems - how to make the solution legally
watertight, and how to make it work. That, according to Reuters, means the
the Commission's move against Microsoft could still be some way off. 

There are two basic areas the Commission wants to tackle - server software,
and Media Player. It's concluded that Microsoft is giving itself
preferential treatment in links between desktop and server operating
systems, and that it should therefore order Microsoft to give its rivals
more information. But even if its instructions are a lot tighter than the
ones in the US final settlement (which would not be difficult), it's of the
view that Microsoft will try to wriggle out anyway. Whatever it does
therefore has to nail the company down very tightly. 

But it's probably good that the Commission is considering them, even if it
does mean the final decision will be delayed for another million years or
so. Better to take time to figure out the right answer than just throw a
bunch of wrong ones at the problem. But what the right answer might be is
certainly not immediately obvious to us. Actually, we kind of liked
Jackson's 'smash it up' gambit; this quite clearly was a wrong answer, but
we felt some of the right outcomes might have emerged from it as collateral
damage, which would at least have been something.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/29725.html

(Thats main parts I have cut out lot drible)

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