By John Oates for The Register.
This article has been reproduced with permission.
The stripped down version of Windows XP is required so Microsoft
can fulfill promises made to Korea's Fair Trade Commission (KFTC).
The KFTC ruled in December that Microsoft must pay $34m and provide
a version of XP without certain features. The ruling is not
dissimilar to the European Commission case, but Microsoft has
described it as even more severe.
Microsoft appealed the decision in March but lost.
The first complaint about Microsoft came from Korean portal
Daum, but Microsoft paid it $30m to go away in November 2005.
Microsoft is still waiting to hear the verdict of its appeal
against the European Commission anti-trust decision.
© The Register 2006
