EU to Suspend Part of Ruling Against Microsoft

International Herald Tribune reports:

The European competition commissioner, Neelie Kroes, has agreed to suspend a part of the historic antitrust ruling last year against Microsoft until after the company's appeal is concluded in the coming years, the commission said Monday.

Under an informal agreement reached last week with Microsoft, the commission agreed to exclude open-source software developers from the benefits of this remedy for the time being. In return, Microsoft vowed to apply the remedy globally.

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