Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Microsoft, EU reach accord on antitrust




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@If(datelineinbody = "No"; tString; "")Microsoft appears to have reached an agreement with the European Commission that concludes an antitrust battle that has lasted a decade, Europe's top competition regulator said Wednesday.




A proposal the company offered in July to address charges of monopoly abuse were dismissed as insufficient by the Commission as well as by rivals in the software industry. But the latest iteration appears to have mollified the EC's regulator.

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