Microsoft, the EU fine, and a browser ballot no one missed
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If a tree fell in the forest, and no one noticed... the European Commission would impose a staggering fine -- and then congratulate itself for protecting consumers from falling trees. That's essentially what just happened: the Commission fined Microsoft $732 million for failing to show its "browser ballot" when users installed one of its Windows 7 updates.
:wtf:
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If a tree fell in the forest, and no one noticed... the European Commission would impose a staggering fine -- and then congratulate itself for protecting consumers from falling trees. That's essentially what just happened: the Commission fined Microsoft $732 million for failing to show its "browser ballot" when users installed one of its Windows 7 updates.
:wtf:
If you could trouser $732 million for predicting a specific bug in a the next n versions of Windows and being right wouldn't you do just that? This being from the same organisation that mislaid 20,000,000,000 Euro's while changing over from one system of agricultural subsidy to another. When we asked them who it belonged to they said 'no one'. when we asked them were it had gone they said we 'didn't have a right to know'.
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)