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When Microsoft's chief executive Steve Ballmer flew to Brussels last week, he was carrying an eleventh-hour offer to settle the European Union's antitrust complaints against the company. But the E.U.'s antitrust czar, Mario Monti, wasn't swayed. Monti will proceed with his plans to punish the software giant for allegedly abusing its monopoly and harming competitors and consumers. Details will be announced this week, but the E.U.'s action promises to be the sharpest regulatory rebuke Microsoft has received, far harsher than the settlement the company made with the U.S. Justice Department and several states...
...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...
...Monti and Neill are both women, and while gay and heterosexual couples have plenty of issues in common, there are big differences as well. Gay couples have to cope daily with homophobia, says Robert-Jay Green, a psychologist in San Francisco. An even bigger problem is a lack of clarity about commitment. "In research samples, the average length of same-sex-couple relationships tends to be about six years," says Green, "compared to around 18 for heterosexuals...
That is beginning to change as commitment ceremonies become common and families become more accepting (Monti's four children adore Neill). In some ways, gay couples have an advantage, says John Gottman, who counsels both straight and gay couples at his institute in Seattle. Because there is no gender divide between them, "gay partners discuss problems more positively, with more humor and affection than heterosexuals...
That's what Monti and Neill discovered. Both had been previously married to men. "We thought that since men are from Mars and women are from Venus or something like that," says Monti, "in a same-sex relationship, communication would be a slam dunk." Instead they found they had the same kind of miscues and hurt feelings that they had faced with their husbands. "Just because we're the same gender," says Neill, "doesn't mean we think the same." --By Michael D. Lemonick. Reported by Sonja Steptoe/Los Angeles