EU Turns Up Nose at Microsoft Openness Initiative

The European Union is looking at Microsoft’s vow to commit to openness and interoperability with a jaundiced eye. The EU’s executive branch, the European Commission, will welcome “any move towards genuine interoperability,” it said, while pointing out that Microsoft had made “at least four similar statements” in the past on this topic. The commission also said Microsoft’s plans to commit to interoperability “does not relate to the question of whether or not Microsoft has been complying with EU antitrust rules in this area in the past.”