Documents dealing with Case COMP/C-3/37.792 re Microsoft’s infringement of Article 82 of EC Treaty by refusing to supply interoperability information and by tying Windows Media Player with Windows Client PC operating system. Mostly correspondence, notes and press cuttings. Includes: draft letter of agreement (CONFIDENTIAL - removed until further notice); letter of agreement from Microsoft signed by Steven A Ballmer, CEO, and Bill Gates, Chairman (CONFIDENTIAL - removed until further notice); briefing notes and programme for Lowe’s visit to the US, with remarks of R. Hewitt Pate, Assistant Attorney General of Antitrust Division of US Department of Justice, at ABA Enforcers’ Roundtable; notes on the economics of the tying case; letter from David Drummond, General Counsel for Google (CONFIDENTIAL - removed until further notice); copy of settlement between Microsoft and Sun Microsystems (CONFIDENTIAL - removed until further notice); considerations relevant to the imposition of a fine on Microsoft; proposals made by Microsoft for undertakings and settlements (CONFIDENTIAL - removed until further notice) and Commission assessments of these proposals; speaking notes for phone call of Commissioner Monti with Messrs Ballmer and Gates; minutes and speaking notes for meetings between DG COMP and Microsoft (SOME CONFIDENTIAL - removed until further notice); notes for meeting with Ed Black, CCIA; note to Ben Smulders, Member of Cabinet of President Prodi, from Kristian Hedburg, Member of Cabinet of Erkki Liikanen, re the case.

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