{"id":547811,"date":"2006-01-24T12:58:10","date_gmt":"2006-01-24T12:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/547811-eu-gives-microsoft-extra-time.html"},"modified":"2006-01-24T12:58:10","modified_gmt":"2006-01-24T12:58:10","slug":"eu-gives-microsoft-extra-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/547811-eu-gives-microsoft-extra-time.html","title":{"rendered":"EU gives Microsoft extra time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">The European Commission has given US software giant Microsoft an extra three weeks to submit documents justifying its position in a long-standing anti-trust case, a spokesman said Tuesday. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Microsoft had had until Wednesday to respond to a so-called statement of objections made last month by EU competition commissioner Neelie Kroes. &quot;This date has now been pushed back to February 15,&quot; said her spokesan Jonathan Todd. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">After several months of calm in the standoff, the EU executive turned up the pressure in December by threatening to slap a daily fine of up to E 2 million on Microsoft for failing to comply with a ruling. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The US company responded by slamming the commission&#8217;s criticism as &quot;unjustified&quot; because it had submitted on time new documents it claimed that EU regulators and an independent trustee advising on the case had not even rea <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The EU competition watchdog already fined the software group in March 2004 a record E 497 million for abusing its dominant market position. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">It also called on Microsoft to market a version of its Windows operating system unbundled from its software Media Player and to divulge information about its operating system needed by manufacturers of rival products. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The EU&#8217;s second-highest court gave its backing in December 2004 to the commission order to implement remedies, which Microsoft wanted suspended. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><i>Inet-Bridge<\/i> <\/font><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission has given US software giant Microsoft an extra three weeks to submit documents justifying its position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547811"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}