The EU is grasping at straws, truly. It is more a battle of USA technologies vs EU countries' technologies, and MS is seen as USA technology. I can understand the EU wanting to give some of their technologies a chance in their own markets, but the strange thing is the open source distributions and 'alternatives' to Windows being used are predominately USA products. Whoops...
Doesn't this show that it's not the goal of the EU to give
their technologies a chance, but to keep competition alive (of whichever nation's companies)? No?