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Microsoft's move came as part of a legal settlement with the European Commission after a decade of skirmishes with the E.U.'s antitrust authority. Neelie Kroes, the E.U. competition commissioner, says Microsoft's previous approach denied consumers a fair choice. "It is as if you went to the supermarket...
Microsoft has always insisted that people had a choice of browsers. The company says that with the settlement, European Windows users will now simply be more aware of their options. "They're all used today, so that doesn't really change," says Brad Smith, Microsoft's senior vice president and...
The settlement may also establish antitrust regulation as a key driver of innovation and competition in the IT sector. When Microsoft first began trading blows with the European Commission, it took a confrontational approach, as if it never believed it would be tamed by Brussels bureaucrats. But the tussles have...
So it comes as little surprise that Microsoft is one of the key complainants in the European Commission's current investigation into software giant Oracle's $7.4 billion planned takeover of hardware-maker Sun. Microsoft is also seeking to halt a Google takeover of mobile-advertising start-up company AdMob...
With technologies increasingly mashing up, Microsoft is also apparently starting to accept the fact that its fortunes are improved when rivals build software and services that fit with its own. "This is a victory for the future of the Web," says Jon von Tetzchner, CEO of Opera, the tiny Norwegian...