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Phrase is out: Microsoft has lost its appeal of the European Commission;s antitrust decision. So now what?There;s no word yet if Microsoft will appeal once more, which it's two months to determine whether or not to complete. If it doesn;t, the business is going to be pressured to pay the $700 million great, as well as a large chunk with the EC;s court expenses. In addition, it will have to finally discover a way to make all the server communications protocols and connected documentation that it has been ordered to give on the market fto its opponents.(Sun and Novell — now both staunch Microsoft allies — were among those server vendors who were insisting on Microsoft making these protocols publicly obtainable. Now that they;re enmeshed in patent/interoperability alliances with Microsoft, I wonder if they care anymore.)My biggest question in all this is how will the Court;s September 17 ruling affect customers in Europe and elsewhere?If you believe Microsoft;s lobbyists, the choice means the end with the free-market economy and is going to be dire for Microsoft consumers and partners. If you believe the European Commission,Office Professional Plus 2007, the decision will create a great deal more consumer alternative and all kinds of new market innovation. Communications protocols and their documentation will be provided. Bundling by Microsoft of applications and technologies for which there are non-Microsoft alternatives in future versions of Windows will likely be frowned upon.Does the ruling affect Windows Vista? Office 2007? The pending Windows 7 and Office 14 products? If it does, I;m not sure how. Will today;s ruling help Microsoft;s rivals, such as Firefox,Office Pro, Adobe,Windows 7 64 Bit, Google? Maybe, if any of these competitors bring a new antitrust case against Microsoft to try to force Microsoft to cut XPS (Micorsoft;s PDF alternative) or Vista;s integrated desktop search and create but significantly more versions of Windows.Microsoft isn;t pulling its products out of Europe (as it threatened to do at one point). It will continue offering the Media-Player-less versions of Windows to consumers there,even though no one seems to become buying them. Another Microsoft watcher wondered about the impact:“Much has been written in the United States about how anti-trust is supposed to be about protecting customers rather than opponents; it;s not clear a similar philosophy is shared by the EU in this case,” said Peter O;Kelly, an analyst with the Burton Group. “In the grand scheme of things,Purchase Office 2010, I don;t think forcing Microsoft to, e.g., offer a version of Windows that un-bundles Windows Media Player or other basic features, will foster improved competition; I doubt European customers would be happy to use deliberately dumbed-down products in order to help EU commissioners reduce Microsoft;s market place share to what they somehow believe is a extra appropriate level.”Me? I think it will be a good thing if today;s decision results in Microsoft not bundling currently standalone products for which there are alternatives from third-party vendors into future releases of Windows. Let users decide what kinds of add-ons they want and from whom they;d prefer to get them. Otherwise, I;m not sure that today;s judgment means a whole lot to online business and consumer users.What do you say, readers?