Randolph The landmark ruling where the EU fined Microsoft €497 million in 2004 is back in the headlines, and Microsoft stands to face another onslaught of investigation into their business practices.
In March 2004, I wrote an article outlining what Microsoft should do to solve the problem, and they just didn’t listen to me. Now they might have to pay 2 million euros PER DAY in fines, backdated to the end of 2004. Ouch!
To summarise, I said they should take the interest they earn on their bank balance for one year and just pay the EU from that. It doesn’t affect their balance sheet. It doesn’t affect their shareholders. It doesn’t affect their stock price.
This could have been resolved a year ago already. Come on Microsoft! I’m rooting for you guys – I want to see how similar Vista is to Mac OS X.
As I mentioned in my article, I will take a 5% consulting fee. You can contact me directly for my banking details.
I doubt Vista will be much like Mac OS X… it's not even based on Unix 😉