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by robin_reala 4848 days ago
This fine is the outcome of repeated failures on MS’s part to properly implement court-ordered reparations, rather than a direct fine required by the original judgement.
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Yes but the original judgement was wrong too - politically motivated you might say
Yeah, it had the political motivation to uphold the European laws regarding abuses of a monopoly. Evil ...
Got to protect those people who can't figure out how to open IE and download the browser that they really want.
As has been said N times elsewhere, this is about the fact that MS stopped OEMs from bundling other browsers, even though they were allowed to bundle other software.
No politically motivated as in a small European browser maker that't always had the smallest market share on Windows decided to make a complaint over something completely ridiculous i.e. MS bundling a browser with the OS