[bnegreve]

I disagree with this kind of reaction:

1. I don't think it's useless, when companies raise their price they loose customers so Microsoft will probably be more careful next time.

2. If it is useless in practice, we should change the law but surely not let them do what they want, just because it's useless.

[mda]

So they fined a company which controls almost entire European Government infrastructure. Company screws up, gets fined, things will continue business as usual, Microsoft still can do whatever they want, at least in the medium term. What EU could do is to actively try to reduce their dependency to a single firm, they can check the future deals, look for alternatives. Then they can have an upper hand and then no companies would screw up a simple thing like this.

[bnegreve]

> What EU could do is to actively try to reduce their dependency to a single firm

Yeah well, fighting IE's monopole is trying to reduce dependecy to Microsoft.