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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7772

4 August 2000
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/competition
Commission opens procedure against Microsoft for discrimination in granting licences and refusal to provide information on software

Brussels, 03/08/2000 (Agence Europe) - On the initiative of Mr Monti, Commissioner responsible for Competition, the European Commission send a statement of objection to Microsoft Corp, suspected of abusing its dominant position in the field of personal computer operating systems so as to control the market for server operating systems. The Commission action follows a complaint made by the American software company Sun Microsystems in December 1998 according to which Microsoft had breached...

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