Microsoft Surrenders; Antitrust Allies Celebrate VE Day
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John Murrell of Good Morning Silicon Valley reports on Microsoft’s capitulation to the EU monopoly ruling in his inimitable style.
The rulings required Microsoft to unbundle its Media Player from Windows (which it did) and to make it easier for rivals to build software that works smoothly with Windows (which it’s been arguing about). In capitulating, Microsoft said it would slash the initial charge and royalty rate for its interoperability information for any developer, including open source. With that, the EU stopped the clock on a 3 million-euro-a-day fine that Microsoft had been racking up over the course of its defiance.
