EU Launches New Microsoft Investigation
January 14, 2008
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates delivers a keynote speech during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) at the Venetian hotel and casino in Las Vegas in this Jan. 6. 2007 file photo. Gates is stepping down from his job as Microsoft's chairman in July, but we probably haven't seen the last of him at the Consumer Electronics Show. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
(AP) -- European Union regulators said Monday they were again investigating software giant Microsoft Corp. this time on suspicion of abusing its market position by squeezing out competing Internet browsers and software rivals dependent on Microsoft programs.
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I think we all know by now that MS is at least as abusive of its position as Intel (*cough*bribing Dell*cough*), Sony, and Apple (can only play iTunes songs on an iPod? iPhones being turned into bricks if you install LEGAL software made by any company other than Apple or its partners? Not even Microsoft ever did that! Please, give me an iBreak).
We don't need any more proof. They are all guilty and we know it. So to me this new investigation says nothing at all about MS. All it tells me is that the EU is doomed to collapse from sheer, utter incompetence.
You have to define what is abuse of power, and what is just trying to gain an upper hand in the competition.