EU suspends Microsoft sanctions
C|Net | at | by Mike
The European Commission has temporarily suspended an order requiring Microsoft to begin to offer a version of Windows without a media player this week. Microsoft said it been notified on Sunday of the Commission's decision, which effectively gives a Luxembourg court time to sort out the case without feeling pressure to reach an immediate decision.
If the order had not been suspended, some of the European Commission's deadlines would have begun to take effect. The Commission's March 24 decision gave Microsoft 90 days to offer an operating system without the media player included and 120 days to begin sharing proprietary information with its competitors regarding its server software.