Microsoft accused over Vista row
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EU Competition Commission Neelie Kroes says Microsoft has been running a "campaign" to discredit her.
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Computerworld readers across the country have written in angered and frustrated by antipiracy features that are included in the new Vista operating system.
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David Daoud ran into trouble when he  started using Vista, the new version of Windows that Microsoft  Corp.  and PC makers have spent millions of dollars  advertising since it came out six months ago.
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By Benjamin J. Romano, The Seattle Times  Jun. 18--Just as a major episode in Microsoft's antitrust saga was  winding down, a complaint from its biggest rival threatens to push the  company's competitive practices back into the spotlight.
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Two U.S. software firms are asking the  European Commission to take action against Microsoft's   new Vista operating system, the Wall Street Journal reported on  Thursday.
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As Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates travels the world promoting Windows Vista and its Xbox interoperability, some gamers are traveling the Web posting negative comments about the new operating system's impact on games.
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By MAY WONG  SAN JOSE, Calif. - For nearly a year, television and Internet audiences have been seeing a familiar string of ads from Apple attacking rival Windows-based computers. With this week's release of Windows Vista, the newest jabs aren't any friendlier.
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Symantec and Adobe complain to the European Commission about Vista security and electronic document features.
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(InfoWorld) - Two engineers at the computer security firm Symantec are coming to Brussels next week to discuss theÂ antitrust threatÂ posed to their company by the upcoming version of Microsoft's Windows, dubbed Vista, a Symantec spokesman said Thursday. Vice President for Consumer Engineering Rowan Trollope and a senior engineer in the technology strategy office, Bruce McCorkendale, will press their case to the European antitrust regulator, the European Commission. Vista is due to launch at the beginning of next year. The Commission hasÂ warned MicrosoftÂ about the possible impact on competition ofÂ Vista's built-in security software. The regulator fears that by including a sophisticated antivirus program into Vista, this could have a similar effect to the bundling of Media Player with Windows XP. Two and a half years ago the Commission ruled that the bundling of Media Player into Windows was anticompetitive and ordered Microsoft to launch a second version of Windows without Media Player. It alsoÂ fined the companyÂ nearly â¬500 million ($634 million). Meanwhile, Adobe Systems has told European Union regulators that Microsoft should be banned from bundling in free competing software for reading and writing electronic documents into Vista, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal Europe. The paper cites unnamed people familiar with the situation. Adobe's and Symantec's lobbying moves will come as no surprise to the Commission. Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes wrote to Microsoft in March expressing concern about Vista's impact on competition, and cited the computer security and document reader and writers sectors as examples of where Microsoft's bundling strategy might pose competition problems. However, earlier this week Kroes insisted she wasn't calling for Microsoft to launch Vista without any security system. "I have seen it suggested that the Commission may seek to prevent Microsoft from improving the security of its operating system. This is categorically not the case," she wrote in a letter to the Financial Times newspaper.ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.
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Microsoft  said on Thursday it  was on track to launch its Windows Vista operating system in  Europe in January but again asked the European Commission to  detail concerns it may have with the system.
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Microsoft says that speech recognition features in Vista could be hijacked so that a PC tells itself to delete files.
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Angry users have flooded a Microsoft  blog with comments voicing their displeasure over the company's decision to postpone delivery of Windows Vista SP1 for six weeks.
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Microsoft has announced it&#39;s suing eight PC resellers over claims they have been attaching Certificates of Authenticity (COA) to non-genuine Microsoft products.
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Several California cities and counties, including San Francisco and Los Angeles, have sued Microsoft Corporation, accusing the software giant of illegally charging inflated prices for its products because of monopoly control of the personal computer
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: Microsoft Corp. today said that small companies and their customers would suffer most if it is forced to remove its digital media software from Windows, while the European Union accused
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Software company VirnetX filed suit against Microsoft Thursday, accusing the Redmond company of infringing on two of its patents regarding virtual private networking.
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Opera Softwareâs complaint accuses Microsoft of abusing its dominant position in the desktop PC market by offering only Internet Explorer as a standard part of Windows.