Background on: Microsoft v. Commission of the European Communities

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Sep 14, 2007

On September 17, 2007, the Court of First Instance released its decision in Microsoft v. Commission of the European Communities.

The Microsoft matter began in 1998 when Sun Microsystems filed a complaint against Microsoft with the European Commission alleging that Microsoft would not provide it with information necessary to allow Sun to optimize its software for interoperability with Microsoft’s operating syste