Microsoft in row with EC over manuals

[Steve]

In a 2004 anti-trust ruling, Microsoft was told it had to write documentation that would enable developers to write software that could integrate with their server operating system. The European Commission reckons they haven't done this properly yet. Microsoft, would you believe, disagrees:

But its response appears to have been something akin to "up yours". The firm not only said in a statement this afternoon that its software documentation was good enough, but that it supplied it in time and that the EC had not even bothered to read it.

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The EC says it has had to "repeatedly remind of the need to provide complete and accurate specifications". Further, the documentation Microsoft said had been supplied on time and merely not read by officials had in fact been supplied late.

[The Register]

Nothing like a good squabble over a manual.

[kalniel]

Hoho, it's a bit rich for the EC to be accusing someone of not being on time

[SpawnofSonic]

it is quite amusing

[Jonny M]

I want to know why the EU enforced this in the first place.

[TheAnimus]

money money money, europe wants more money, because them french farmers god bless them need to be paid to farm in-efficently.

[directhex]

I want to know why the EU enforced this in the first place.

ever wondered why you can't write to NTFS from linux?

[TiG]

ever wondered why you can't write to NTFS from linux?

Microsoft Standard[ards] hehe

TiG

[Jonny M]

ever wondered why you can't write to NTFS from linux?

Because Microsoft won't tell people exactly how to do it I guess. But why should they?