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EU Rejects Microsoft Offer, Sources Say

Feb 17, 2004 12:17AM PST

By Paul Geitner, AP Business Writer

BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP)?European Union regulators have rejected as insufficient Microsoft Corp.'s latest offer to settle long-running antitrust charges but are continuing talks, sources familiar with the discussions said Tuesday.

With a decision from the EU due this spring, the U.S. software giant has been scrambling to avert what could be a far-reaching order to change the way it packages its dominant Windows desktop operating system and reveal more of its underlying code to rival manufacturers.

Spokespeople for the European Commission and Microsoft declined to comment on a report in Tuesday's Financial Times that Microsoft had offered to include rival media player software on a CD-ROM packaged with personal computers to help resolve the case.

More: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1528213,00.asp

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