Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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> Microsoft Antitrust Hearing in Europe Canceled
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> | The regulators? attendance was important, Microsoft said, because they
> | may have been more sympathetic to the company?s argument that the
> | bundling of Internet Explorer in Windows did not represent a breach of
> | European law. The commission typically consults with the national
> | regulators before issuing sanctions and fines in the case....
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> | Jonathan Todd, a commission spokesman, said the panel was puzzled by
> | Microsoft?s request. He said the hearing would have been attended by
> | Neelie Kroes, the competition commissioner for the European Union and
> | ranking executive. Usually, the hearings are conducted only by a staff
> | hearing officer.
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/23/technology
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> Microsoft bails out of European competition hearing
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> | Microshft has turned down the chance to give oral evidence to the
The hot and cold blow job approach to micoshaft oral giving.
I bet the threat from increased fines for perjury for going oral might
have scared them off. Or perhaps the thought of more internal
documents going on line has given them oral constipation in
court room drama. You couldn't make this stuff up.
> | European Competition Commission - because the date clashes with a big
> | beanfeast for regulators in Switzerland.
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> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/22
microsoft_pulls_out_of_ec_competition_hearing/
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