Windows à la carte.
This article discusses a conflict between the European Commission and computer company Microsoft. The headline-grabbing €497m ($612m) fine imposed by the European Commission on Microsoft this week is the least of the software giant's worries, for it makes that much profit every two weeks and is sitt...
| Publicado en: | Economist Vol. 370; no. 8368; pp. 61 - 63 |
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Economist Newspaper Limited
3/27/2004
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