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A European court swept aside Microsoft's objections yesterday and ordered it to offer a version of its Windows operating system without its software for playing digital music and movies on personal computers.

The ruling applies only to Europe, but it represents the first time since antitrust challenges to Microsoft began in the 1990's that the company will be forced to alter its bedrock business strategy of bundling its software products and features with Windows. The basic operations of more than 90 percent of the world's personal computers are controlled by Microsoft's Windows program.

"This ruling goes to the heart of Microsoft's bundling strategy," said Andrew I. Gavil, a professor of law at Howard University. "So potentially, this is very significant."

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Finally someone stopped them and called them out for some monopolistic aspects of that horrible corporation...One small step for man, one giant leap for (evolved)mankind ;)