"Nobody expected Microsoft to be charged in a country where you can buy ANYTHING and ANYONE so easy."

As easy as you can get a gun at your waters :) not so easy to get armed in Russia though. What you call "corruption" you do so because of your point of view, while majority of other than you folks think and act on very different grounds like mother nature's law for instance. your thin nature cannot let you believe that you too, personally could be stronger than the other, even for a paid moment. you call it corruption because it is not consistent with your ways of living and judging others and bribery with robbery is effectively integrated into your constitution/s. Do not spread lies just because you feel, while "thinkin" that you are correct.

I think, came dadies with big diplomats, and take care of the problem,- latter they drink vodka and fsuck girls in bath, with whose FAS and other big guys
thats the russian style, to deal big deals, like whose in the west are playing annoing golf and make big deals, they simply have bath with vodka and girls

Nobody expected Microsoft to be charged in a country where you can buy ANYTHING and ANYONE so easy.

In Rah-shah we make invest-gation in mee-cro-soft monopole, da. Dis no monopol, they pay mah-nee for invet-gation make ok, da.

Please be good see-tee-sen and go khome, nothing to see kheer, or we make you go on long trip with maybe small accident, da.

Microsoft ok, kharasho?

Like in America, justice is for sale to the highest bidder. How many bottles of Vodka were shipped?

Of course they're going to let MS slide... what other Operatins System brings in so much revenue on the side.....

such as the malware suites XP Antivirus 2008, 2009, et al ?

Back then in the old days of the PDP-11 the Russians re-engineered the PDP-11 from DEC because they were not allowed to buy them (cold war et al).
At the end those guys understood the machine better then DEC themselves.

Looks as if the Russians have their own way of giving XP another life.

If is is to be believed what one can read on the ReatOs home page, there will be a re-engineered version of the NT kernel from React OS in a few years.

Which may mean, that you will have a platform that may use KDE 4.x as the front end and a ReactOS kernel for XP program and driver compatiblity.

That way XP compatiblitly would be available without Microsoft at no charge.

Windows XP forever?
Windows XP, the undead?

Who knows, maybe Microsoft will find themselves in a situation where they offer free Windows XP downloads just in order to keep the flag flying.

Should ReactOS succeed, this would mean a free XP compatible OS for the developing world and not that that.

The Arabs buy AMD and drag semi manufacturing to UAE,
the Russian take over Windows XP and make it available for free.

Opinions, anyone?

MS has paid a bribe, which was lower than the expected anti-trust penalty. End of story.