Microsoft Gartner said South Korea sanctions will not have a substantial impact

Industry experts predict that South Korea recently to the Microsoft Corp to make antitrust sanctions will not cause too much impact on the user and the computer manufacturers or Microsoft Corp.

South Korea antitrust regulation official said in December 7th, the Microsoft Corp of its Windows operating system and instant messaging software and Windows media player bundling behavior is a kind of unfair business practices, in violation of the anti monopoly law.

South Korea has imposed a fine of $32 million on Microsoft Corp and ordered it to sell its operating system software without binding instant messaging software and media players.

Microsoft Corp said it would appeal against the verdict, saying it was selling its Windows operating system in South Korea as a standard version of Windows. According to Gartner, the software developers should be fully prepared if the appeal is upheld.

Gartner, vice president of research institutions Dion Wiggins said: if upheld, Microsoft Corp will be forced to withdraw its current Windows operating system in South Korea issued. Even if the EU allows Microsoft Corp can sell at the same time, the standard version of the Windows operating system when released in the revised version of the Windows operating system, so the world will also Windows operating system will not have a unified version of the."

Wiggins went on to explain that South Korea will again trial may also draw other results, such as the PC vendors are forced to provide two versions of the Windows operating system, it must also spend a sum of costs to develop and test new versions of the operating system (build).

Microsoft Corp is facing a minor penalty, the company did not have any major impact. Two versions of the Windows operating system will be fine tuned. Since these applications need to uninstall, Microsoft Corp may not make any changes to the Windows system program code. Other products will be promoted through the HTML website. As a result of the new version of the Windows operating system must be tested, which may delay the time it landed in the Korean market."

Gartner Research Institute is expected to end users in South Korea in addition to get a new version of the Windows operating system has been delayed, will not be any other substantive impact.

However, Gartner analysts pointed out that the hidden meaning behind this thing will be Windows media player and instant messaging software supporting the application of software developers have a greater impact on the destruction. These companies will have to modify their applications to check the programs they have already installed.

Gartner research firm said: "software developers may have to spend a small amount of time to update their software code. Software developers who have been doing well in program code and always check the version number of the collaborative software will not be affected. If there is no installation of collaborative software, the application software will provide a download link for the user to download and install the associated software."

Gartner recommends that South Korean software developers ensure that their products can check the version number of collaborative software