Ouch
Bill gets dinged. AP (09.17.07):
"Microsoft lost its appeal of a European antitrust order Monday that obliges the technology giant to pay a record $613 million fine, share communications code with rivals and sell a copy of Windows without Media Player.On another note, The Register (09.17.07):In a stinging defeat for the world's biggest software maker, the court decision also affirms Europe's role as the lead international regulator of dominant companies."
"A batch of laptops pre-installed with Windows Vista Home Premium was found to have been infected with a 13-year-old boot sector virus."For the geeks among us, the virus dates from 1994, and is a "boot sector computer virus known as Stoned.Angelina".
"According to Virus Bulletin [link in original], the consignment of infected Medion laptops – which could number anything up to 100,000 shipments – had been sold in Danish and German branches of retail giant Aldi. The computers had been loaded with Microsoft's latest operating system Vista and Bullguard's anti-virus software, which failed to detect and remove the malware."
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But look at it this way: it's only 457 million Euro... Now that's stomachable...
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