EU: Hate the game, not the player
WinInfo | at | by Mike
Well, the EU is at it again. Antitrust regulators in Europe, who seem willing to investigate even imagined Microsoft transgressions, are this week examining the software giant's efforts to give away its Microsoft Office file formats as international standards. Seriously, mull that one over for a second and explain to me who, exactly, the EU is protecting with this one. Microsoft pursued the standardization route because various governments around the world told the company that they wanted to store their important documents in open formats. So Microsoft responded, presenting its Office document formats to various standards bodies, including the ISO, which initially rejected the application.