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The text you quoted points to a real flaw in thinking on the part of the EU commission. If the commission has a problem with Microsoft due to monopoly practices, that is one thing. However, once they state they are seeking for Microsoft's products to reach a certain point of market share, they are on a very slippery slope.

This just points to socialist thinking in that the EU commission wants the market to be divided 'fairly'. The commission should be focused solely on specific incidences of anti-competitive practices and specific resolutions. They should never be interested in arranging the market just right so that companyA has 50% share, companyB has 20%, etc.

The fact that the commission is focusing on this really brings credibility questions to mind and makes me wonder what their real goals are.

At the risk of bringing another contentious point into an already contentious topic, if this were an EU-based company, would the findings be the same?