C'est assez amusant de voir Steve Ballmer faire du bluff avec la Commission Européenne.

"We urge the EC to make their regulatory path clearer, more consistent and transparent," said Hugo Lueders, European director of public policy of CompTIA, in a statement.

"The present EC enforcement lacks clarity. Quite simply, it is a floating goalpost rife with ambiguity," he added.

He, too, noted that if the EU doesn't comply with this request, Microsoft may simply take its ball and play elsewhere.

"The sad result will be a European Union bereft of its innovative edge and zeal," he said.