EU ruling against Microsoft was a 7/6 split
WinInfo | at | by Mike
It turns out that the EU's antitrust decision against Microsoft in 2007 was a close call. Judges from the EU Court of First Instance narrowly voted to charge the software giant with antitrust abuses in a vote that was 7 for and 6 against. Since then, of course, Microsoft has settled the case, but this week's revelation about the closeness of the vote has caused some to opine that Microsoft would have been successful had it tried to appeal the decision. (Microsoft did appeal a previous 2004 ruling that included, among other things, a $720 million fine.) And the EU has clearly been emboldened by its success against Microsoft, which I find to be the more important issue here.