EU hits back at Microsoft complaints
Facing accusations by Microsoft Corp. that it has colluded with the company's rivals in its ongoing antitrust case, the European Commission has hit back. On Friday, the Commission released a confidential agreement with the company that, it says, proves that it has acted properly.
Last Thursday, Microsoft filed a formal complaint against the Commission, saying that the body was failing to act as a fair and independent regulator in the antitrust case. The company said that the Commission encouraged Microsoft rivals such as Sun Microsystems Inc. and IBM Corp. to lobby an independent computer expert, who is supposed to advise the Commission on whether Microsoft is complying with the Commission's 2004 antitrust ruling, to take an anti-Microsoft line.
On Friday, the Commission published a document that details the mandate of the expert, the so-called monitoring trustee. The Commission and Microsoft reached an agreement on the mandate last October. A Commission spokesman said that the document showed that it was perfectly normal for the trustee, U.K. computer scientist Professor Neil Barrett to have contacts with rival firms.
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Microsoft's efforts to comply with the European Commission's anti-competition ruling are "entirely inadequate", Brussels has warned.
The Commission said it would impose fines of up to 2m euros (£1.4m) a day if the firm continued to drag its feet.
The comments followed reviews of how the US giant was meeting EC demands that it open up its Windows operating systems to rivals.
Microsoft rejected the claims saying it had "surpassed" the EC's requirements.
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