A Green Party member of the European Parliament has formally requested that Microsoft be excluded from EU public procurements, because it is in breach of EU competition law.

It's been suggested often, but this is a formal application from a Euro-MP, and according to Groklaw, the EU Commission has to respond, within six weeks.

Groklaw predicts that the EU will find a way to wriggle around this, but suggests that this question might prompt some thinking - and perhaps persuade the EU to do something about its dependency on Microsoft software.