EU vs. Microsoft

Published by: Codrut Nistor, in News

May22nd2008


While the Yahoo vs. Microsoft affair, previously known to be finally over, seems to have some dark areas yet to be discovered, another incident involving Microsoft has been brought into the light once again - the European Comission has just added Microsoft's promise to improve the compatibility of Office applications with competing programs to its concerns list...

EU vs. Microsoft, Reloaded

Expected to become reality next year, Microsoft's promises include the ability to save PDF files in Office 2007, together with other non-Microsoft formats, in addition to its Office Open XML format, shortly known as OOXML.

On Thursday, the European Union's executive arm said "In its ongoing antitrust investigation concerning interoperability with Microsoft Office, the commission will investigate whether the announced support of PDF in Office leads to better interoperability."

So far, Microsoft was forced to pay no less than $2.63 billion in fines in the E.U, so they should be extra-careful this time. It seems Europe shouldn't be taken lightly...

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2 Comments on EU vs. Microsoft

  • On 05/23/2008 at 12:20 am Edward Turtle said:

    That's pretty interesting stuff! I use Ubuntu and OpenOffice so doesn't concern me much, but I kinda like MSOffice.

  • On 05/23/2008 at 12:30 am Codrut Nistor said:

    Heh, that's also a good point, but if Microsoft does things right this time, you'll have better odds to work properly with documents saved/generated with Office. ;)

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