On second thought, EU may bring fresh case against Microsoft

In what appears to have been a corrected story this morning, Reuters is reporting via The Washington Post that EU competition commissioner Nellie Kroes has decided that the Commission may not wait for Microsoft to appeal a decision forcing it to change its software sales practices in Europe, before possibly filing fresh charges against the company :

"We have had informal complaints, and we are using our time now to look at them. We’re not going to wait and do nothing," Kroes told the [International Herald Tribune].

A Commission spokesman, however, denied that Brussels had any plans at the moment to file another suit against Microsoft, although he admitted new complaints had been lodged which the Commission was examining before taking any decisions.

(The Washington Post)