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"The European Union intends to fine Microsoft for past antitrust abuses regardless of how the software giant changes its future business" - Yahoo News (WAP)

Looks like Microsoft's finally starting to get what's coming to it. It's no secret that the Europeans generally look on Microsoft with disdain and mistrust, but now they could be facing a pretty hefty fine: more than $3 billion max. In practice, the fine is likely to barely put a dent in Microsoft's obnoxiously deep pockets (probably only 1/10 of that figure) - but it's a start. The biggest gripes are about monopolization on "small server" installations and media players. The EU's not too happy about Microsoft's tie-in Media Player taking hold with content providers who are looking at using the wmv, wma, etc. formats over other, more usable formats just because Media Player comes with Windows and so many people just use it by default.

This, along with the news of IBM's countersuit against SCO (and Red Hat's slightly less noted filing earlier this week) bode well for the geeks... maybe things will play at well after all?

(BTW: If anyone catches a link on /. or something, please post it up - I couldn't find anything online - I just happened to catch it on my cell phone)
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