Microsoft isn't fooling anyone by hiding behind a trade group to complain to European antitrust regulators about Google and its Android mobile operating system, a legal expert said today. "FairSearch.org is seen by many observers here as ...
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A Spanish association of Linux users today accused Microsoft of anti-competitive practices, charging that Windows 8's Secure Boot blocks users from installing rival operating systems on new PCs. Hispalinux, which represents some 8,000 ...
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No Microsoft browser rival would comment on, much less confirm, that it reported the omission of the browser ballot to European antitrust regulators. All three of Microsoft's Windows browser competitors -- Google, Mozilla and Opera ...
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Europe's antitrust agency had put Microsoft on the honor system, letting the company monitor its own compliance with a 2009 settlement that required it to offer other browsers to Windows users, the EU's top regulator admitted. That ...
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European Union regulators will not force Microsoft to open its Windows RT operating system to rival browsers, the Brussels-based antitrust agency said Wednesday. At the same time, the European Competition Commission served Microsoft with ...
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Computerworld - Microsoft last week began providing European consumers a "browser ballot screen" for Windows 8, a move that may be just the first of several steps the company will take to head off a new antitrust investigation. According ...
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European antitrust officials have widened their investigation into Microsoft's browser practices to include four different allegations against Windows 8 and Windows RT, a government spokesman said Wednesday. Antoine Colombani from the ...
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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has announced that it would not oppose Nestlé's $11.85bn deal to acquire Pfizer's infant nutrition business. However, the commission asked Nestlé to license its brand ...
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Microsoft's 16-month browser ballot screw-up in the European Union cost Mozilla an estimated 8.8 million downloads of its Firefox browser,the open-source vendor's head lawyer said Tuesday. Microsoft faces fines that could reach into ...
IDG News Service - Competition Commission of India, the country's antitrust agency, is investigating Google for alleged anti-competitive practices following a complaint by a consumer watchdog group, a federal minister told Parliament on ...
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