Microsoft Ends South Korea Legal Battle
October 18th, 2007 by Gen KanaiThe AP is reporting that Microsoft has stopped appealing the anti-trust suit it lost in South Korea in 2005. The official decision is available for download here.
The ruling imposed a multimillion dollar (euro) fine imposed on the U.S. software maker for unfair business practices and required Microsoft to provide two separate versions of Windows, one stripped of the Windows Media Player and Windows Messenger and the other carrying links to Web pages that allow consumers to download competing versions of such software.
This is an important decision for the Korean Fair Trade Commission. Let’s hope that the KFTC takes seriously the new concerns around the defacto monopoly of the web in South Korea.
Microsoft wants to drop antitrust appeal in South Korea - International Herald Tribune