Il cambio di rotta di Microsoft potrebbe essere la motivazione per cui assistiamo quest’oggi ad una nuova press release dell’Unione Europea, sembra che Microsoft sia finalmente al di fuori dell’occhio del Ciclone. Non si sa se la possibilità di rimozione di IE8 sia una risposta alle “minacce di sanzioni”, ciò che è certo è che Chrome, Mozilla, Opera e Safari hanno da festeggiare..

Microsoft has an ongoing obligation to supply complete and accurate interoperability information as specified in the Commission’s 2004 Microsoft Decision. However, given that the original set of interoperability information has already been documented by Microsoft, increased opportunities through private enforcement provisions in Microsoft’s license agreements for third parties to exercise their rights directly before national courts, and experience gained since the adoption of the 2004 Decision the nature of the technical assistance that the Commission requires is now of a more ad hoc character.

The Commission therefore considers that the ongoing monitoring that is still necessary can be performed more appropriately with the help of technical consultants who are available under a framework service contract to advise on issues that arise from time to time.

In line with this, the Commission has today adopted a Decision which removes the Trustee provision from the 2004 Decision and repeals the 2005 Trustee Decision which provided for the modalities of the monitoring mechanism and the appointment of a monitoring trustee. The Commission nevertheless highly appreciates the excellent quality of the work that the former monitoring trustee has provided since 2005.