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The Wall Street Journal reported this morning that EU regulators have announced a third investigation into Microsoft's conduct on the desktop. This time around, the EU is going to investigate the long string of complaints about what happened during last year's attempt by Microsoft to achieve adoption for OOXML.
This latest action demonstrates that while the EU has settled the case against Microsoft that ran for almost a decade, it remains as suspicious as ever regarding the software vendor's conduct, notwithstanding Microsoft's less combative stance in recent years.
I particularly applaud this action, because the credibility and integrity of the standard setting system has been called into serious question by the events of the last year. Whichever way the final results come out, the formal standards system will benefit from the fact that regulators were willing to get to the bottom of things when the trust of the public in standard setting was increasingly placed at risk.
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