Microsoft quietly content as EU moves on Google
Microsoft Corp emanated an air of quiet satisfaction on Wednesday as European antitrust regulators readied charges against rival Google for abusing its monopoly power in the online search business. “They have to go through what they have to go through,” said one Microsoft general manager, who was closely involved in the company’s public relations at the time of Microsoft’s antitrust trial against the U.S. Department of Justice, which started in late 1998 and dragged on until early 2000. “What goes around comes around, eh?” said one former senior Microsoft executive, who remembers the effects of the extended skirmish with the Justice Department. “Today’s decision provides to Google a full opportunity to explain its views at a hearing, and the Commission will then have the opportunity to decide whether European legal rules have been respected,” a Microsoft spokesman said in an emailed statement.
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