Microsoft Seeks to Settle with EU Over Media Player

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on February 17, 2004 - 8:53am.

Brussels -- According to news media reports, U.S. software giant Microsoft has capitulated over an investigation into allegedly anti-competitive practices in Europe and asked to settle with the European Commission (EC). Microsoft has reportedly offered to include rivals' products on the CD-ROMs that come with PCs. Most of Microsoft's competitors, however, claim the pick-up rate on such CDs is extremely low, and the EC would appear to agree with them insofar as it has rejected Microsoft's offer as insufficient. The Commission has already reached a preliminary decision that Microsoft muscled out competitors by unfairly bundling its media player with the Windows operating system.
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