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Microsoft will divide release of the source code of Windows under licentie. The business want with this hearing give at demand that by the European Commission have been stolen. This has Roast known made Microsofts legal senior official Smith on a press conference to Brussels.

In March 2004 decided the European Commission that Microsoft antitrustlawten had damaged through its dominant position on the software market to abuse in the competition fight with other businesses.,. Microsoft was condemned till a fine of 497 million Euros, and was dedicated its concise strategy at to fit at the law.

As a consequence of this Microsoft a Windows-version had to bring out impossibly made without gentegreerde audio-visual software, since this integration of products the other manufacturers to bring their own software for Windows at the man.

Also Microsoft the competition only understanding had to offer in their software, so that these would can optimize their own solutions for the Windows-operating system. That understanding gets the competition now - more even then about which the European Commissions round had asked.

“We are till the conclusion come that the only manners certainly to know that we at the requirements of the Commission satisfy, is a step further to go. And better documentation then the source code there is not”, according to Smith.

From Windows will now all source code be released that relation has on the technologies that the European Commission names in its condemnation. What percentage of the total source code this is, could or say wild Smith not.

The decision of Microsoft is not come without blow or push till position. In December 2005 judged the Commission yet that Microsoft insufficient documentation had furnished at competitors, and threatened it with an extra fine: two million Euros for each day that Microsoft no hearing gave at the demand.,