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VIRTUALISATION Microsoft questions EU unfair treatment in browser hearing
VIRTUALISATION Microsoft questions EU unfair treatment in browser hearing | Microsoft questions EU unfair treatment in browser hearing |
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| by Stan Beer | |
| Monday, 25 May 2009 | |
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However, the issue for Microsoft is not the case itself but the fact that it does not believe that the EC is giving it the opportunity for a fair hearing. The problem is that under EU law, all defendants in an antitrust suit have the right for a preliminary hearing so that it could put forward its side of the story and the EC supposedly extended Microsoft that right. The problem for Microsoft is that the EC scheduled Microsoft's preliminary hearing for June 3-5, the exact time when the most important worldwide intergovernmental competition law meeting, the International Competition Network (ICN) meeting, will be held in Zurich, Switzerland. What that means, according to Microsoft, is that it would not get the chance to present its case before the key EC decision makers who will all be in Zurich. Microsoft asked for an alternative time but the EC refused so Microsoft, presumably not wishing to present its case to second tier EC officials, has pulled out. This of course has enraged Microsoft which is crying foul. CONTINUED Page 2 |
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