Slashdot reported and interesting article today concerning a huge fine hanging over the head of Microsoft,
due to its inresposiveness to open up Windows and provide better documentation for other vendors to increase the overall interoperability.

Well its all in the article ... Its imo interesting to follow-up ...

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/22/1325258

The direct article via BBC ...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4552214.stm

***EDIT*** Repaired BBC link.