{"id":740865,"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.com\/index\/740865","title":{"rendered":"Google reported Microsoft for violating browser commitments in Europe, leading to $731M fine"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/07\/microsoft-fine-google-tattled-362650\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"650\" height=\"476\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/google-sign-301.jpeg?w=650&#038;h=476&#038;crop=1&#038;resize=650%2C476\" 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'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'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. <br \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/07\/microsoft-fine-google-tattled-362650\/?utm_source=more-link&utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading...<\/em><\/a><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/MYaE5WQjCvk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","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":4810,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-740865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-36Jr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4810"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}