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Open Windows, Shut the Door After five years in the ring with Microsoft, E.U. competition regulators finally landed a punch against the software heavyweight last week. Brussels levied a record €497 million fine against Microsoft for anticompetitive practices, granting rivals access to information on its Windows operating system and ordering the firm to offer a second version stripped of its proprietary Media Player. Microsoft is appealing - a process that could take up to five years - but even if the new rules kick in as early as this summer, the firm will be allowed to sell the Media Player version...
...with greater functionality, why choose the other?? Smith says Microsoft's offer to bolt rivals' media software onto Windows would have benefited consumers. As it stands, it's hard to see how Europe 's PC shoppers will gain from half a decade of regulatory wrestling. See Also: A Hard Line on Software Creating Another Monster Where's the fastest place to get good career advice? It might soon be the Monster Network, an online, searchable Rolodex from job-posting leader Monster.com. Tapping the viral power of networking services like Friendster.com (which links people who have mutual friends), the new Monster...
...Microsoft Outlook engine is not so capacious; messages disappear after 28 days. Otherwise, I would surely have kept track of the e-mail I?ve received - most gratefully received - commenting on my stories. You should know that TIME writers rarely see the readers? comments on their magazine stories; letters go to the Letters Department, except for those addressed specifically to the writer. At TIME.com, you need merely click on a writer?s byline to pick a fight or fling a bouquet. I get the message...
...Mario Monti's resolve to punish Microsoft wavered last week, he showed no sign of it. For more than four arduous years, Europe's antitrust czar and his staff have toiled to build a watertight case against the computer software giant, filing three formal complaints alleging that the company abused its monopolistic position and harmed competitors and consumers. But last Tuesday, just a day after E.U. member states approved tough sanctions against the Redmond powerhouse, Microsoft's chief executive Steve Ballmer flew to Brussels with an eleventh-hour settlement offer that directly addressed many of the European complaints. Some...
...reason for this is pretty clear. Penn and Princeton have a Microsoft-like monopoly on Ivy League basketball. They have the impressive facilities, the rowdy fans and the history that give them the upper-hand when it comes to recruiting...