Public Sector IT
July 2012
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How Europe did 20 years of backroom deals with Microsoft - 1996: Only Microsoft can do Microsoft
27 Jul 2012 -
How Europe did 20 years of backroom deals with Microsoft-1993: EC rubber-stamps Microsoft monopoly
25 Jul 2012 -
How Europe did 20 years of backroom deals with Microsoft - 1992: Open standards doomed from outset
24 Jul 2012
The European Commission gave up pretending there were alternatives to Microsoft in 1996. It side-stepped new laws designed to keep public money honest, claiming exceptional circumstances. It gave ...
Europe's ill-fated 1993 migration to Microsoft Office was rubber-stamped by a committee that failed to see how it would get locked into buying Microsoft without a competition for the next 20 years, ...
The European Commission has been trying - and failing - to avoid being locked into proprietary Microsoft technical standards since 1992, it has been revealed in official documents released to ...