Microsoft's latest offer to comply with sanctions imposed by the European Commission is insufficient to meet the concerns of customers and consumers, a European Commission spokesman said today.
"On the basis of market test results, we have serious doubts that Microsoft is complying with the interoperability remedy," EU competition spokesman Mr Jonathan Todd said.
The remedy is one of two which the Commission imposed on the US software giant a year ago along with a record €497 million fine.
EU Competition spokesman Jonathan Todd
The Commission found the company abused its dominant market position to compete unfairly against rivals, including in the market for servers used in offices to operate printers and file access - the so-called interoperability issue.
It ordered Microsoft to share data protocols with competitors, including open source software companies.
Microsoft said it would comply fully with the EU regulator's orders to sell a version of its ubiquitous Widows operating system stripped of the Widows Media Player audiovisual software and license some 80 communication protocols to rivals.
That would enable them to make their servers more easily compatible with computers running Windows software. The International Herald Tribune quoted Todd as saying the Commission suspected Microsoft's plan discriminated against open-source software companies by denying them access to Windows code.