Microsoft touts US antitrust victory to EU
WinNetMag | at | by Mike
Microsoft officials are hoping that the company's long and winding road to legal victory in the US antitrust case will show European Union (EU) officials that Microsoft is curbing its abusive behavior. Although EU antitrust laws differ from US antitrust laws and the concerns raised in the EU antitrust case are different, Microsoft believes that both cases address the same questions.
"I do hope that people in Europe and around the world will pause and perhaps take a bit of time [to read the appellate court decision that ended the final legal challenge to the company's US case]," Microsoft Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary Bradford L. Smith said this weekend. "The decision addresses many of the precisely same questions that are front and center in Europe."