EU hits Microsoft. Who's next?
Yesterday’s European Union antitrust ruling certainly “socks Microsoft in the pocketbook,” says Fortune’s Jon Fortt in CNNMoney.com. But the ones who should really worry are other “U.S. tech giants that have run afoul” of the EU in recent years. Companies like Intel, Apple, and Google might discover that “emboldened EU regulators are worse for them than for Microsoft.” The EU ruling doesn’t focus on Microsoft’s core business, but European regulators are looking at the “bread and butter” products of the other firms. Apple, with its “interoperability”-challenged iTunes/iPod combo, is the one most as risk.
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