Microsoft countered the latest EU ruling

This Monday (April 23), Microsoft voiced its response to European Union rulings that they charged too much information to help competitors' products work better on the Windows OS platform. . In addition, software giants do not forget to reiterate the need to have more specific instructions on acceptable prices offered by the coordinator.

In order to create fairness on the software industry, EU officials expect Microsoft rivals to also have access to 'reasonable cost' of information content to help their programs run better. on Windows based servers. According to market regulators, not only is the current price offered by Microsoft too high, but the vendor's information is still incomplete.

The EU has extended to Microsoft on the night of Monday this week to give specific feedback about the fee charged by competitors in sharing computer information. The EU also threatens to impose a fine of $ 4 million per day if Microsoft is behind schedule. Of course, the alliance also said it would consider Microsoft 's response before deciding what the daily penalty would be.

Source: AFP Microsoft has not yet released detailed information about responding to this notice. Previously, Microsoft has stated that the price they offer is reasonable and the EU has not issued any clear guidelines on prices.

" We need to know more about the specific price that the European Commission wants us to count on rivals, and we want this to be done in a grant ," said Brad Smith, Microsoft's chief consultant. change in construction rather than in formal lawsuits '.

Currently, Microsoft still calculates the maximum license fee rate of 5.95% for products using its server protocol. "Software giant" said that the price is quite commensurate with the value of the source code. According to Microsoft, the European Commission also wants it to "give away" technology patents to its rivals.

On March 1, the EU executive board said that in the required information, Microsoft must provide its competitors, "they did not notice any significant improvements", and therefore, Microsoft did not reserves the right to claim increased copyright fees.

The Microsoft complained that the sanctions imposed on them by the 27-nation European Union were unsuitable for the world and at the same time affected Europe's efforts to become a prosperous high-tech economy.

Do Duong