Microsoft backers and rivals get EU extension
Seattle PI | at | by Mike
European regulators have given Microsoft's supporters and competitors until the end of this week to respond to the company's plan to give away some proprietary information on the inner workings of its Windows operating system.
"Some of the people we were consulting asked for extra time and we saw no reason not to give it to them," Jonathan Todd, a spokesman for the European Commission, the antitrust regulator for the 25-nation European Union, told journalists.
Companies including IBM, Oracle and Nokia Oyj, which are opposing Microsoft, now have until Friday to reply, Todd said in an e-mailed statement. The original deadline was last Friday.