EU Not Impressed By Microsoft’s Words, Wants Action
The EU seems to think Red Hat got it right on Microsoft’s press release (which was about interoperability, read more here) yesterday. According to Linux Insider, the EU has said that, while they would appreciate “any move towards genuine interoperability,” they have seen similar statements from Microsoft in the past and they will not be impressed until Microsoft really does something. Additionally, the EU stated that Microsoft’s recent action “does not relate to the question of whether or not Microsoft has been complying with EU antitrust rules in this area in the past.”
That is a lot of bad news for Microsoft, which was presumably hoping to get the EU off their backs with their recent press release. It looks like the EU will not go easy on Microsoft in their current investigations no matter what and unless Microsoft really does what they said they would, it looks like the EU will continue to keep the pressure on Microsoft.
The real question now is what Microsoft will do next. There are basically two options for Microsoft, really do what they said or deal with the EU in some other way. Or else they could just send some expensive laptops the way of the EU courts… 
