Under threat of daily fines by European Union regulators, Microsoft says it will offer its commercial rivals access to a "pretty significant" chunk of the source code for its Windows operating system. Responding to an EU antitrust ruling, Microsoft in December had offered its competitors thousands of pages of documentation and free technical support on communications protocols for its software for running servers -- but an independent monitor called those documents "totally unfit" for the intended purpose.
January 26, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Under threat of daily fines by European Union antitrust regulators, Microsoft Corp. agreed Wednesday to let competitors examine some of the blueprints to its flagship Windows operating system.
Microsoft said it would offer commercial rivals access to a “pretty significant” chunk of the source code governing communications between servers. The code is from its Windows workgroup server and its desktop operating systems.
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