EU cautious on Microsoft Windows antitrust offer
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A surprise offer by Microsoft to show rivals its source code for Microsoft Windows, its software blueprint, may prove wide of the mark to avoid a daily 2.5 million dollar fine, the European Union's antitrust chief said.
Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes said what users needed was workable instructions which would allow competitors to develop server software for functions such as managing printers that works with Microsoft Windows as well as Microsoft's programs do.
The EU ruled in 2004 that U.S. giant must must share the instructions to correct unfair competition that had crippled competitors.
Kroes told Reuters she had little to go on regarding Microsoft's announcement it will open its source code, since the company had given her only a letter and a press release rather than a detailed response to Brussels' formal complaints.
'When we have full details I will come back,' she said, adding the European Commission, the EU's executive arm, had never sought source code,
which Microsoft describes as the DNA of its Windows operating system.
A surprise offer by Microsoft to show rivals its source code for Microsoft Windows, its software blueprint, may prove wide of the mark to avoid a daily 2.5 million dollar fine, the European Union's antitrust chief said.Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes said what users needed was workable instructions which would allow competitors to develop server software for functions such as managing printers that works with Microsoft Windows as well as Microsoft's programs do.
The EU ruled in 2004 that U.S. giant must must share the instructions to correct unfair competition that had crippled competitors.
Kroes told Reuters she had little to go on regarding Microsoft's announcement it will open its source code, since the company had given her only a letter and a press release rather than a detailed response to Brussels' formal complaints.
'When we have full details I will come back,' she said, adding the European Commission, the EU's executive arm, had never sought source code,
which Microsoft describes as the DNA of its Windows operating system.
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