A post on The Blog of Legal Times, a Lit Daily sibling, takes readers inside the European Commission’s decision to drop its latest competition case against Microsoft. The commission announced its decision to drop the case early Wednesday, after Microsoft negotiated an agreement to offer Windows users in Europe a choice of Web browsers, including those offered by Mozilla, Apple, and Google, according to The New York Times.
For Microsoft, the agreement averts another lengthy European legal proceeding–and, potentially, a big fine. According to the BLT, Microsoft’s antitrust troubles in Europe began in 1998, when a complaint from Sun Microsystems triggered an investigation into Microsoft’s packaging of its media player with its operating system.
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