Thursday, February 28, 2008

Microsoft fined €900 million by Brussels

Talk is cheap. Flouting the rules is expensive...
The new European investigations come as Microsoft finds itself in danger of seeing EU governments effectively ban its software to create documents. The European Commission and its member states have been mulling a mandate that all government documents be created in the Open Document Format (ODF), an open source competitor to the proprietary format used in Microsoft Word. STORY IN BUSINESSWEEK

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