34 Quotes by Thomas Vinje

Any such settlement should not result in the closure of the EU (Microsoft) case. The Commission should, and we expect it will, proceed vigorously with its case against Microsoft,

This is about whether Microsoft can go on bundling products with Windows and pushing out competitors.

There's a striking similarity between Microsoft's efforts to evade compliance with the European decision and its failure to properly comply with the U.S. settlement.

It's a typical Microsoft tactic to draw things out as much as possible, and in a way it's working because E.C.I.S. is so busy working on the appeal that it hasn't had time to submit a fresh complaint against Microsoft.

It's merely, entirely and completely a public relations ploy to try to divert attention from the extremely strong case the commission has against Microsoft for failure to comply with the commission's decision.

Its very clear that there has to be solid documentation in place...The specs have to be fully documented.

They would dump millions of lines of code and finding what competitors need to interoperate would be like looking for a needle in a haystack. Even the most sophisticated software engineers would be lost.

The settlement strengthens the Commission's case. Real has already provided evidence for the case, and that record is complete and in Luxembourg.

In his final summing up he talked about ways forward by identifying the problems Microsoft must solve. That's not a plan.