Microsoft busted again
The Competition directorate of the EU Commission has (quelle surprise) concluded that Microsoft is not complying with the agreement it made with the Commission. Apparently they're:
- not making it easy for competitors to get access to compatibility protocols
- overcharging for the licenses they require before the allow companies to see Windows' innards
- not allowing companies to see into specific protocols but force them to gain licensed access to 'everything' (also relates to pricing)
- not allowing open source access to their protocols
- gouging companies eyes out with royalties
(Please don't mind the 'protocol' part - the original article was pretty unclear on what they meant with that but my guess is that they meant Windows APIs. Any developer of a complementary/competing product would rather hook into the APIs at a source level than at the OS level but Microsoft is doing its best not to allow this access.)

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