Microsoft says appeal is helped by Airbus
Seattle PI | at | by Mike
Microsoft, the world's largest software maker, said yesterday its appeal against a European Union antitrust decision will benefit from the support of Airbus SAS, the biggest passenger-aircraft maker.
"The Airbus filing confirms that, as Microsoft has said all along, the negative effects of the commission decision will be felt well beyond the software industry," Horacio Gutierrez, Microsoft's top lawyer in Europe, said in response to Airbus' decision to back Microsoft's legal challenge against the EU.