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MSN Messenger Illegally Bundled in Windows?

Digito.com sustains Microsoft infringed the Fair Trade Act

By Bogdan Popa, Microsoft News Editor

24th of October 2007, 13:36 GMT

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I can bet the Redmond-based giant didn't expect this. Digito.com, the creator of Soft Messenger, an instant messaging application which came out in 1998, sued Microsoft requiring no less than W30 billion in damages. According to Digital Chosunilbo, a US dollar equals no less than W918, so

I believe it would be a pretty huge fine. It seems that the Korean company sustains the Redmond-based software firm implemented MSN Messenger into its operating system in 2000 and infringed the Fair Trade Act. Digito.com sustains its business was pretty affected by Microsoft's move and the instant messaging application lost clients due to the inclusion of MSN Messenger inside Windows.

"If Microsoft hadn't bundled its instant messaging program with its operating system we could have reaped significant profits," said an official from Digito.com according to Digital Chosunilbo.

Microsoft refused to comment on the reports and sustained it will release an official statement once the case is confirmed.

MSN Messenger has never been one of the technologies that would have been able to crash the competition, because Yahoo Messenger was and continues to be the top player on the instant messengers market. However, lots of applications are continuously released on the web, coming with new features and functions, all of them bringing innovative abilities to the users who want to chat.

MSN Messenger was first designed by the Redmond-based company in 1999 and was included in the Windows operating system, being offered as the default instant messenger to all the users of the application. Last year, Microsoft renamed MSN Messenger to Windows Live Messenger and included it into the impressive suite of technologies with the Live tag. Some time ago, Microsoft and Yahoo, the owners of two large communication networks, signed a deal to connect their applications and designed support to allow the consumers of the two programs to communicate on the web.

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Comment #1 by: homerm07 on 24 Oct 2007, 21:48 GMT	reply to this comment
correct me if i'm wrong, one company is suing microsoft because microsoft bundled it's own microsoft messaging software in its microsoft operating system? that's dumb. if i'm correct on how i read the article, doesn't microsoft have that right to add what ever software they own rights to?

Comment #2 by: RandySavage on 29 Oct 2007, 06:47 GMT	reply to this comment
So, essentially this Korean company is arguing free market-place "competition" from Microsoft hurt them because they made a competing product? Nice. Sue every competitor for hurting your profit. This must be a North Korean company because South Korea wasn't communist last time I checked.

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