EU names computer scientist to eye Microsoft
An AP newswire article, via MSNBC, reports that:
The European Commission appointed a British computer scientist Wednesday to oversee whether Microsoft Corp. is complying with a 2004 antitrust ruling that it had abused its near-monopoly in desktop computer systems to shut out rival software makers.
The EU executive named Neil Barrett as a trustee to monitor the U.S. software company’s compliance came on the same day EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes met with Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer to discuss general antitrust issues.
Kroes refused to divulge specific details from her meeting with Ballmer other than saying the talks were “constructive” and added that she told the Microsoft CEO about Barrett’s appointment.
Kroes said she and Ballmer “discussed a broad range of competition issues ... his vision on the business climate in Europe, also in the (United) States and the Far East.”
She said they also committed to meeting in future “on a regular basis.”
posted by Fergie @ 10/05/2005 06:51:00 AM
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