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...limit himself to talks with aid organizations and foreign governments. "This and that department, the World Bank, human rights blah blah blah, over and over, it becomes so boring," he says. He's also courting corporate America. In the last few years, Kagame has met with the bosses at Microsoft, Google, eBay, Starbucks, Costco, Merrill Lynch and Bechtel. He's hosted Starbucks chairman Howard Schultz and CEO Jim Donald, and in March was the star speaker at the coffee giant's AGM, at which he described Starbucks and Rwanda as parts of an "extended family very closely linked...
...Microsoft has said the ruling would have a disastrous impact on innovation, and it is expected to appeal. The company said it would undermine efforts by market-leading firms across the globe to improve their products for consumers, as they would not be able to benefit from their own innovations...
...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 rivals like Apple's QuickTime or RealPlayer. Throwing Media Player into the Windows package for free is described as "bundling," and the Commission said this effectively killed off RealPlayer...
...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). Indeed, the only point that Microsoft won was a minor one on whether it should be forced to pay for a trustee to monitor its compliance with the 2004 decision...
...With monthly profits of $1 billion, Microsoft can easily afford to appeal the ruling. But at this point, after years of legal wrangles and so many clear reverses, it has to ask whether it is now time to just move...