Microsoft Is Warned by Europe, so Microsoft vs The EU is back in the news. Litigation can often take more time then innovation, America has gone Web 2.0 crazy, and Europe is languishing in a Web 1.0 world.
The European Commission has concluded, after a five-year investigation, that Microsoft Corporation broke European Union competition law by leveraging its near monopoly in the market for PC operating systems (OS) onto the markets for work group server operating systems...
The problem today is that Microsoft's attorneys haven't made a successful appeal of the EU Commissions 2004 ruling. Microsoft needs to reboot their effort of communicating client-server computing and interoperating in age of the Internet. A Team of imaginative technologists should be assembled to go to Brussels to articulate SOA, XML and Web-Services, because the legal Team has been conspicuously ineffective at communicating ideas.
The European commission hasn't been forthcoming with identifying which companies are at a disadvantage because Microsoft Server Software has better compatibility with the Windows OS. UNIX Servers were dominant the world over till recently as Windows Servers have encroached on to the network. Which company or corporation will be responsible for disclosing Apache and Linux compliance and interoperability?