{"id":3869,"date":"2012-09-29T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-29T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2380940"},"modified":"2012-09-29T13:45:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T13:45:00","slug":"ec-may-hand-microsoft-its-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/ec-may-hand-microsoft-its-head\/","title":{"rendered":"EC May Hand Microsoft Its Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission said Thursday that it\u2019s going to take Microsoft to the woodshed and formally charge it with breaching a 2009 agreement to offer European users of Windows a mess of alternative browsers, a deal struck to settle a brewing antitrust case.<br \/>\nMicrosoft admitted the oversight blaming it on a technical problem and offered to extend the term of its compliance by 15 months.<br \/>\nAntitrust czar Joaquin Almunia said his people are running up the statement of objections.<br \/>\nPresumably it\u2019ll mean another hefty fine on top of the $1.28 billion Microsoft\u2019s already paid the regulator, especially since it\u2019s the second time the company has failed to comply with an EC order, something no other company has ever done. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2380940\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission said Thursday that it\u2019s going to take Microsoft to the woodshed and formally charge it with breaching a 2009 agreement to offer European users of Windows a mess of alternative browsers, a deal struck to settle a brewing antitr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}