South Korean law enforcement authorities to postpone the ruling again in November Microsoft final sentencing

According to the latest report Electric said the Korea Fair Trade Commission will be said on Tuesday, the Department will once again Microsoft is in violation of the law of the country even bargain for its Windows XP platform bundled with instant messaging software and multimedia player and the trial was delayed a month by the time. South Korea's Fair Trade Commission will make the final decision on the investigation in November this year.

Director of bureau of Fair Trade Competition Commission Huh Sun said at a news conference, once again made the ultimate penalty for investigation, because the RealNetworks and Daum of Korea communications companies have asked for more time to them to support their position. Huh Sun said: "we plan to hold a meeting in October 26th this year. If there is no big outside, we will officially announce the final results of the trial in November this year".

In 2004, RealNetworks and South Korea's Daum communications company filed a lawsuit against Microsoft in violation of South Korea's anti-monopoly law, the South Korean Fair Trade Commission began investigating Microsoft. RealNetworks accused Microsoft and South Korean subsidiary illegal tying "media player" and "media server software in the Windows operating system, and Daum communication company accused Microsoft of illegal Windows operating system in the integrated MSN instant messaging software.

Microsoft believes that Windows XP users have the right to choose what kind of media player and instant messaging software, so the company's behavior does not violate the principle of fair competition. , President of South Korea's Yoo, said in August 9th this year, if the South Korean Fair Trade Commission ruled that the existence of monopolistic behavior, the company will immediately filed a complaint to the Jae-sung. Currently, most computer manufacturers in South Korea are preloaded with Microsoft's Windows XP operating system in PC.

In March 2004, the EU ruled that Microsoft monopoly was convicted and sentenced to a hefty $606 million fine for Microsoft. In addition, the EU also asked Microsoft in Europe to remove the media player software Windows operating system, as well as low-end server market competitors to share product code. Currently, Microsoft has implemented the EU antitrust ruling, but the company filed an appeal is still in the process of trial.