Europe Threatens New Microsoft Fines
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| The European Union escalated its trans-Atlantic fight with Microsoft
| Corp. on Thursday, threatening new multimillion fines against the
| software maker over claims it is asking rivals to pay too much
| for information that would help their servers work with Windows.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070301/eu_microsoft.html?.v=5
Microsoft's dirty secrets:
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| A number of Microsoft ex-employees and certified
| developers have referred to much of Microsoft's
| formal documentationa s "undocumentation"
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http://www.sonic.net/~undoc/comes_v_microsoft/Supp_Rpt_Andrew_Schulman.pdf
Upon Vista release:
ECIS Accuses Microsoft of Plotting HTML Hijack
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| An industry coalition that has represented competitors of Microsoft
| in European markets before the European Commission stepped up its
| public relations offensive this morning, this time accusing
| Microsoft of scheming to upset HTML's place in the fabric of
| the Internet with XAML, an XML-based layout lexicon forn
| etwork applications.
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http://www.betanews.com/article/ECIS_Accuses_Microsoft_of_Plotting_HTML_Hijack/1169824569
Software rivals say Microsoft's Vista illegal in Europe (at CNNMoney.com)
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| Software manufacturers, citing 2004 European Commission finding,
| contend the operating system violates server laws in Europe.
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| "Vista is the first step of Microsoft's strategy to extend its market
| dominance to the Internet," the ECIS statement said.
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| It said Microsoft's XAML markup language was "positioned to replace HTML,"
| the industry standard for publishing documents on the Internet.
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| Microsoft's own language would be dependent on Windows, and discriminatory
| against rival systems such as Linux, the group says.
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| They said a so-called "open XML" platform file format, known as OOXML, is
| designed to run seamlessly only on the Microsoft Office platform.
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http://money.cnn.com/2007/01/26/news/international/bc.vista.microsoft.eu.reut/index.htm?source=yahoo_quote
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