Topic: - on November 28, 2002 at 7:35:04 PM CET
'No conflict of interest,' as MS recruits top Brussels IT Eurocrat
In a barely-registered coup earlier this month Microsoft recruited senior European Commission official Detlef Eckert. But that's not a problem - Eckert, who it is understood will be joining The Beast on the 1st of December, "has had nothing to do with the Microsoft competition case," the FT's 'Observer' gossip column tells us, but simply "had responsibility to roll out broadband communications."
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