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Stan Beer
Monday, 25 May 2009 13:37
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Microsoft
has lashed out at the European Commission over its treatment in a new
antitrust case and for once the Redmond software company may have a
point. The EC has brought a case against Microsoft over its long time
inclusion of Internet Explorer as part of Windows.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.
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