Horacio Gutierrez Quotations

We are pleased to have collaborated with the Bulgarian authorities in their swift and effective action in this case. This is an important step forward in the combat against those who prey on Internet users.

Last week the Commission said it was premature for Microsoft to allege they are riding roughshod over our rights of defense. Today we are less than a week away from the deadline for filing our response and have been denied access to the complete file, so I suppose it is now official and they are indeed riding roughshod over our defense rights.

While the documents provided do not include the direct correspondence between the Commission and its technical experts, they show that the Commission, the trustee, and Microsoft's adversaries were secretly collaborating throughout the fall of 2005 in a manner inconsistent with the Commission's role as neutral regulator and the Trustee's role as independent monitor.

We continue to have serious concerns about the lack of access to important documents in this case. Our repeated requests to the European Commission for full and fair file access have not been successful, so we are now turning to the U.S. courts for assistance.

Transparency is vitally important in what can be a very opaque process in Brussels. We've decided to open this up so people can understand the issues.

We are now turning to the U.S. courts for assistance in obtaining relevant communications between our U.S. competitors and the Commission.

What we have submitted to the Commission responds to all the requirements they have made known to us.

We have made every change the commission has asked us to make to the technical documentation, and we are prepared to do more if they request it. Yesterday's announcement underscores Microsoft's commitment to meeting the commission's demands.

This would be the same as taking away the right to a hearing, or the right to respond to a statement of objections.

Today we are less than a week away from the deadline for filing our response, so I suppose it is now official and they are indeed riding roughshod over our defense rights.

We don't know how much of (the trustee's) report was the independent assessment of the experts and how much was a result of the Commission's influence.

We will file the answer tomorrow. We feel very good and very confident on the completeness of the documentation.

There is nothing more that can be done. Everything we do is now available to licensees as well.

These contacts call into question whether the reports are really independent, impartial assessments of Microsoft's technical documentation, or instead are argumentative tracts developed for the Commission with the assistance of Microsoft's competitors.

These contacts call into question whether the reports ... are really independent, impartial assessments of Microsoft's technical documentation, or instead are argumentative tracts developed for the Commission with the assistance of Microsoft's competitors.

The unsupervised and undocumented meetings between the trustee and Microsoft's adversaries encouraged by the commission violated the commission's own procedural safeguards as well as general principles of due process.

Because there was a question about whether we were holding something back, offering the source code is the answer.

The Commission cannot unilaterally take away a fundamental right of defense.