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South-Korea gets special, undressed versions of Windows - without media player or chatprogramma. Microsoft comes with this tegemoet at the antitrustmaatregelen that the business last year became opgelegd.

The South-Koreaanse competitions authorities considered in December last year Microsoft with a fine of 32.5 billions won (26.4 million Euro). The softwaregiant wanted to break the antitrustlawgeving to anchor through a media player and a chatprogramma in Windows.

Microsoft must moreover within the six months two versions of Windows offer: a version without Windows Media Player and MSN Messenger, and a second variant that is open for equivalent software of competitive businesses.

Although Microsoft call registered against the decision of the South-Koreaanse Federal Trade Commission, affirmed an anonymous source at press agency Reuters that Microsoft on 24 August the gestripte versions on the Koreaanse market launches.

It would go round each time two versions of Windows XP Home Edition and Windows XP Professional Edition. One version must has can download the putting without Windows Media Player or MSN Messenger, the others a shady to a webpage true Windows-users software of competitors.

In a similar affair in 2004, the European Commission Microsoft obliged to offer a version of Windows without Windows Media Player on. The softwaregiant might sell of the European Commission source yet an 'usual' version of Windows. Furthermore the software business was condemned till the paying of a fine of 497 million Euros and must the business information about serverprotocollen release.

Because Microsoft according to the European Commission at this last demand satisfied not, became the business in July considered with an additional fine of 280.5 million Euros. Europa and Microsoft ruzin yet always about the releasing of the information.