MS forced to re-build Windows XP

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Microsoft faces huge fine, forced to re-build Windows XP by EU

Vole and EU negotiations collapse

By INQUIRER staff: Sunday 14 March 2004, 11:13
A BREAKDOWN in negotiations between the European Union and Microsoft is likely to mean punishment for the Redmond Vole.

A report on Reuters claims that a draft decision to punish Microsoft will be passed tomorrow.

It suggests Microsoft will be made to share code with other makers of software for servers, and to create a version of Windows XP, without Media Player 9 included.

And Microsoft is also likely to have to pay hundreds of millions of Euros when the EU committee meets later on this month.

If the report turns out to be correct, the move will cause a great deal of confusion in the channel - coping with the different flavours of Microsoft software is already difficult enough. Another version of Windows XP will just compound channel misery.

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