A South Korean court Thursday found US software giant Microsoft Corp guilty of violating anti-trust regulations, but dismissed compensation demands by two rival South Korean companies.
The Seoul district court ruled that the Microsoft had abused its monopoly status by bundling programes with its OS.
"Microsoft's sales practices breached fair competition regulations by bundling its related programmes, abusing its market dominance," the judges were quoted as saying by the Yonhap news agency.
However, the court rejected 40-billion-won (32-million USD) compensation lawsuits by Digito.com and Sanview Technology Inc saying there was no proof damages suffered by Microsoft.
"The companies were ousted from the market, either by lack of price competitiveness or overseas business failure," the court said. "It has not been proven that the damages are linked to Microsoft."
"Microsoft's sales practices breached fair competition regulations by bundling its related programmes, abusing its market dominance," the judges were quoted as saying by the Yonhap news agency.
However, the court rejected 40-billion-won (32-million USD) compensation lawsuits by Digito.com and Sanview Technology Inc saying there was no proof damages suffered by Microsoft.
"The companies were ousted from the market, either by lack of price competitiveness or overseas business failure," the court said. "It has not been proven that the damages are linked to Microsoft."
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