Microsoft to ask for EU remedy delay Friday
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
As part of its ongoing defense against the European Commission's competition decision earlier this year, Microsoft on Friday is expected to ask the European Union's Court of First Instance (CFI) to delay the Commission's remedy rulings against the company from taking immediate effect, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Earlier this month, Microsoft filed a 100-page appeal brief with the CFI, located in Luxembourg, but the stay request is a separate legal matter.
Microsoft is requesting that CFI President Bo Vesterdorf issue an interlocutory order to suspend the Commission remedies until the CFI decides whether to affirm or annul the decision, a process that is expected to take between three to five years. Legal briefs for both the appeal and the stay request are confidential and will not be made public.