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Microsoft goes officially in occupation against the antitrustmaatregelen of the South-Koreaanse competitions authorities. The South-Koreaanse Fair Trade Commission (FTC) judged in December last year that Microsoft the antitrustlawgeving has break through a media player and a chatprogramma in Windows to anchor.

The FTC imposed Microsoft 27 million Euros fine. The softwaregiant must moreover within the six months two versions of Windows offer: a version without Windows Media Player and Internet Messenger, and a second variant that is open for equivalent software of competitive businesses.

As before announced draws Microsoft now occupation at against that decision at the supreme court in South-Korea. Moreover the software business asks that the FTC the affair look at again.

Microsoft names the opgelegde measures “many extreme than that of the European Commission”, that in 2004 Microsoft obliged a Windows-version without Media Player on to offer. The softwaregiant might sell of the European Commission source an “usual” version of Windows. The Koreaanse competitions authorities went yet a step further, and also this standard version in the excommunication did.

“Through here can Microsoft in Korea not longer the present version of Windows offer that elsewhere source available is,” leads the business on. Microsoft warns that these measures a negative impact have on the Koreaanse economy: “The decision of the FTC makes the furrow Koreaanse manufacturers of hardware and software so intricately that the their competition position world-wide will affect.”