Sources: EU rejects Microsoft offer
The European Commission has rejected an offer from Microsoft to settle its long-running antitrust case, according to people familiar with the situation.
Stories by Paul Meller
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Draft EU ruling finds Microsoft guilty
Microsoft's chances of settling its European antitrust case are fading, as competition officials at the European Commission circulated a draft ruling to colleagues that finds the company guilty of abusing the monopoly power of its Windows operating system, according to people close to the Commission.
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EP committee votes changes to anti-piracy law
A committee in the European Parliament has agreed on substantial changes to a proposed law against counterfeiting and piracy of goods including computer software, music and movies.
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Lobbying heats up ahead of antipiracy law debate
Europe's largest telecommunications companies, the cable industry and several well known American Internet firms have joined forces in an effort to change a controversial proposal for a European Union law to combat counterfeiting and piracy of articles such as computer software, online music and movies. The draft law will be debated by a European Parliament committee today.
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MS ANTITRUST - EU quizzes hardware makers on MS licences
The European Commission has contacted unspecified hardware manufacturers about Microsoft's licensing policy because it suspects anti-competitive behaviour, it said yesterday.
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MS ANTITRUST - MS readies response to EC antitrust charges
Microsoft is on the point of submitting its written response to European Commission (EC) antitrust complaints, according to a company spokesperson.
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European Parliament agrees on software patents
The European Parliament has voted in favour of a law that goes some way toward limiting the scope for patents on software programs.
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EU postpones software patent law review
A proposed Europe-wide law on software patents has been knocked off the agenda of this week's plenary meeting of European parliamentarians and won't be debated by the full assembly until September, a parliament official said.
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EU approves mega distie merger
The European Commission has given the go-ahead for US-based Tech Data's acquisition of Azlan Group, a UK-based networking services company.
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MS ANTITRUST - EU Microsoft guilty ruling takes shape
The shape of a probably guilty ruling in the five-year-long European Union antitrust case against Microsoft Corp. emerged this week, following a leak from an internal panel reviewing the handling of the case.
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EU unlikely to follow US ruling on Microsoft
Microsoft, which expressed pleasure with District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly's antitrust ruling in the US on Friday, is likely to be disappointed in its hopes that the US ruling will set the tone for a similar ruling from European antitrust regulators, according to the software giant's critics.
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EC to clear Intel in antitrust inquiry, source says
The European Commission will drop its antitrust probe of Intel, after concluding that complaints it received toward the end of 2000 from two rivals proved groundless, said a source close to the inquiry Friday.
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HP/COMPAQ: EC clears HP acquisition of Compaq
The European Commission Thursday approved the planned acquisition of Compaq Computer by Hewlett -Packard, removing one of many hurdles that stand in the way of the deal. The Commission said that competitive forces in the concerned markets show that the merged entity would "not be in a position to increase prices" and that consumers would continue to benefit from sufficient choice and innovation.
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Microsoft denies is misled EC investigators
Microsoft on Wednesday denied it misled the European Commission in its antitrust investigation into the software company, disputing a press report to that effect.
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EC sets limits on mobile phone emissions
The European Commission has set limits on the amount of electromagnetic waves that can be emitted by mobile phones in Europe, it said on Monday.
