Jonathan Todd
Jonathan Todd
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The commission will remain determined to ensure full compliance with the March 2004 decision. The commission is obliged under treaty rules to ensure the proper application of the competition law to the benefit of consumers and companies, and not to the benefit of any individual company.
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The commission expects Microsoft to respect the principles established by the March 2004 decision when designing and implementing Vista.
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It will be at least several weeks because it's a complicated matter and we will have to digest very carefully the information that we obtain from the hearings and the information that we have obtained in writing.
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It is the commission that decides if Microsoft is in compliance with the ruling, not Microsoft.
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Our independent trustee, who is advising the Commission and who was suggested to us by Microsoft, Professor Neil Barrett, has told us the document is, to quote, 'totally useless'.
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Experience clearly shows that where there is more competition on a market, prices fall.
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Professor Barrett is a leading and well-respected computer expert whose name was suggested to the Commission by Microsoft .
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Microsoft has to comply with the March 2004 decision, not with their interpretation of the March 2004 decision.
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The role of the European Commission is to ensure proper application of EU competition rules to benefit consumers and companies in Europe, not for the benefit of one company.
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Microsoft is very attached, as you know, to business secrets -- its own business secrets.
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Spanish authorities need to respect the Commission's competence.
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They are contesting our decision on legal grounds in court, and we will fight them on that. Our own investigation of Poland's 1999 privatization rules will continue.
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It's not comparable to a seller on the high street where the customer has a choice of supply. It's a company with a dominant market position. The commission has found Microsoft to be abusing that dominant market position by failing to make its technical information available.
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Governments do not have right to take measures relating to competition, if it is a merger that falls under our (jurisdiction).