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Quoting the AFP news agency :the year 2014 will be the year when all french government authorities, military, police and so on will migrate to linux. I'm still looking for confirmation but I've heard that things are looking similarly in germany and spain... well the world is changing outside the window :)  it may be that XXI century will be the century of TUX...  

Geez Robert they should have renamed you Windows Defender and not their spyware product! I know you call them out when they stuff up but when it comes to competitors and things like the EU its always Microsoft is in the right, going to win, everyone else evil etc etc...

I never said no one was harmed, just competitors. I think that forcing Microsoft to give competitors the tools to decrease Microsoft's competitive advantage was extreme enough. But fining Microsoft twice for the same aggression just feels wrong.

Honestly, the EU is an overall good group of countries, but like everything else, if they can get money easily by finding loopholes...they probably will...and in this case, they did.

Of course they need Microsoft as a cash cow, they lose so much money. EU Aid to Russia, for example, is extremely ineffective, and alot of EU aid goes to fund their bureaucracy anyway. Seems as though they can't become the US and try to actually invest money into actual development projects.

The EU regulates the EU market, Microsoft regulates the EU.

We should be glad the EU doesn't try to run America in the same way Americans try to run the world.

Why do you want to run our sovereign countries? Get over yourselfs, really, is running half the Middle East not enough?

@Bob Jones

Get over yourself and go watch more of the BBC...apparently, they're unbiased, but they spit out the same garbage you're trying to bring to a blog about Windows...

Good job...you don't like to make yourself look like an idiot do you?  If not, don't say stuff like that...

Trying to act like the worlds problems are all Microsoft's and America's fault just shows how ignorant you are and really how lazy the rest of the world is to actually step-up and fix their own problems instead of giving the BS response of: "It's America's fault" all of the time.

That goes along with Microsoft.  I honestly hope that you guys don't ever have any problems with a European country because then the EU will find them pocket change and put them out of business.

Seriously, get over yourself before you try and accuse Microsoft for the worlds problems...

I agree.  They have found an easy  way to get some cash to fund whatever they are looking to fund. Perhaps some more medical for everyone.

I wish in some ways that Microsoft would just turn off all Windows machines, reformat the drives and then ask "how do you like me now?"  To bad that will never happen.

It's not about competition, it's about money.

Well, guys. Things look different here in Europe. Microsoft is not obeying the laws and that is why they should pay!

That are the rules of the game and Microsoft should stick to them and stop thinking as they were the world leader!