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Since Sept. 11, the State Department has issued hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts to security companies like Blackwater to augment its own, internal Diplomatic Security office that protects U.S. diplomats overseas. What was viewed as a short-term need has extended into a six-year investment. When asked...
The decision was also welcomed by Microsoft's rivals. Thomas Vinje, the lawyer for the European Committee for Interoperable Systems (ECIS), a group of technology companies that includes IBM, Nokia, Oracle and Sun Microsystems, said, "This is a great day for European businesses and consumers." He added: "At long last...
The ruling hinged on two key issues. The first was whether Microsoft was allowed to sell its Windows operating package with the music and movie playing application Windows Media Player. But the Commission said that with Windows on 95% of all computers, it gave Media Player an unfair advantage over...
The second issue concerns the technology needed for office servers to communicate with one another when they use rival software to share files or printers. The Commission said that without these protocols, computers running rival server operating systems, like open-source software Linux, cannot work properly with Windows.
Many observers expected the court to give a mixed ruling, but instead it sided with the Commission on the two major issues, and upheld the fine (the ruling also activates a Commission decision from July last year that fined Microsoft a further $378 million for dragging its heals in compliance...