Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, and sometimes it’s a wash.
That might be the sentiment in Redmond right now: Microsoft, for once, has managed not to run afoul of European antitrust regulators by handing heaps of documenation on Windows technologies and protocols in advance of a November 23 deadline. The European Commission fined Microsoft over $350 million in July for failing to provide “complete and accurate” documentation of key Windows technologies which would let third parties interoperate successfully with Windows services. The new documentation turned in by Microsoft totals some 8,500 pages, and will now be reviewed by the EC’s trustee and third parties—including Sun, Novell, and IBM—for accuracy.
