{"id":645662,"date":"2013-03-07T11:35:57","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T16:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=362650"},"modified":"2013-03-07T11:35:57","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T16:35:57","slug":"google-reported-microsoft-for-violating-browser-commitments-in-europe-leading-to-731m-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/645662","title":{"rendered":"Google reported Microsoft for violating browser commitments in Europe, leading to $731M fine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/07\/microsoft-fine-google-tattled-362650\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"476\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/google-sign-301.jpeg?w=650&amp;h=476&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Microsoft Fine Google \" title=\"Google\" \/><\/a><\/center>Microsoft (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=msft\">MSFT<\/a>) was hit with <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/06\/microsoft-browser-choice-fine-europe-361566\/\">a $731 million\u00a0fine on Wednesday<\/a> for not displaying a required browser choice screen in Windows 7. The European Commission found that nearly 15 million people weren&#8217;t given an alternative browser option in Europe from May 2011 through July 2012. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/0\/e748bfc8-8682-11e2-b907-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2MoAgE2at\">a report from the <em>Financial Times<\/em><\/a>, the Commission was tipped off about <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/microsoft\">Microsoft&#8217;s<\/a> violation by rivals <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/google\">Google<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=goog\">GOOG<\/a>) and <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/opera\">Opera<\/a>, both of which would have benefited greatly from the mandatory browser selection screen Microsoft failed to display in Windows. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/07\/microsoft-fine-google-tattled-362650\/?utm_source=more-link&#038;utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading&#8230;<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/MYaE5WQjCvk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft (MSFT) was hit with a $731 million\u00a0fine on Wednesday for not displaying a required browser choice screen in Windows 7. The European Commission found that nearly 15 million people weren&#8217;t given an alternative browser option in Europe from May 2011 through July 2012. According to a report from the Financial Times, the Commission was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7439,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7439"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}