Microsoft to EC: Can't we just talk?
InternetNews | at | by Mike
The company today filed its official response to the European Commission's Competition Committee's Statement of Objection, issued in March, which accused Microsoft of charging monopoly prices for interoperability protocols for its Windows Workgroup servers.
But the software vendor, which had until the end of the month to respond, said it wants the commission to tell it what its prices "must be in order to qualify as 'reasonable.'"
"We need greater clarity on what prices the commission wants us to charge, and we believe that is more likely to come from a constructive conversation than from a formal hearing," said Microsoft attorney Brad Smith in a statement.