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Article: Microsoft Disowns EC-Designed Windows.
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- Client Server News
- Article date:
- March 29, 2004
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"It ain't Windows and nothing will make it Windows," Redmond says.
If Microsoft is forced to put out a version of Windows that is shorn of the Windows Media Player, Microsoft won't recognize it as Windows. It'll be a bastard program fathered by the European Commission, not by Microsoft, according to the company's general counsel Brad Smith.
"Windows is a state-of-the-art operating system designed for state- of-the-art computers," he said, not the pitiful dumbed-down thing the EC wants to foist on the poor unsuspecting European consumer - and calling it Windows amounts to compulsory licensing of the Windows trademark, a defense that Microsoft is going to ...