EU official lambasts US support for Microsoft
EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes said on Wednesday that a top US justice department official’s criticism of an EU court decision against Microsoft was “totally unacceptable”.
Assistant attorney general Thomas Barnett said after the Court of First Instance (CFI) ruled against the software maker on Monday that its decision could chill innovation and discourage competition. Kroes’s statement raised the stakes in a split over the Microsoft case between the Bush administration and the European Commission.
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