EU's Kroes denies vendetta against Microsoft
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EU antitrust chief Neelie Kroes on   Tuesday rejected an accusation she was pursuing a vendetta   against U.S. software giant Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O and   suspected a "coordinated campaign" to discredit her agency.
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Aircraft maker Airbus  on Thursday denied a report it was siding with Microsoft  in its anti-trust battle with the European Union.
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Microsoft  said on Monday it  would not appeal against its defeat in a landmark antitrust  case in a top European Union court last month.
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European Union Competition  Commissioner Neelie Kroes said on Wednesday that a top U.S.  Justice Department official&#39;s criticism of an EU court decision  against Microsoft was &quot;totally unacceptable.&quot;
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BRUSSELS, Belgium  - The Dutch woman nominated to the powerful post of European Union antitrust commissioner resisted suggestions during her confirmation hearing Tuesday that her extensive experience in the corporate world meant she might be soft on big business.
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Just when Microsoft thought it was safe to do business in the European Union, the government has opened a second complaint against the software giant.
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Neelie Kroes, the EU&#39;s controversial new competition commissioner, yesterday signalled to the French authorities that she would block any attempt to protect France&#39;s energy market by engineering a merger between its state-owned electricity and gas groups.
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The European Commission has said it will pursue its anti-trust case against Microsoft despite the loss of two of the Commission&#39;s principal supporters from the IT industry.
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LISBON - Despite the growing profile of Linux, continued security concerns and an anticompetion ruling from the European Commission, Microsoft Corp. faced no coup d'etat when it rolled into Lisbon on Portugal's revolution day Tuesday.
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Last week's ruling by the European Court of First Instance (CFI) upholding the European Commission's 2004 finding against Microsoft and its subsequent Statement of Objections, may open the door for the EC to take unprecedented action. Commissioner for Competition Neelie Kroes stated she's open to suggestion, and today one response came from the respected Brussels-based Globalisation Institute think tank: Force manufacturers by law to sell PCs without operating systems pre-installed or bundled.
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The European Union's top competition   regulator clashed with Microsoft on Tuesday over security   upgrades in the U.S. software giant's new Windows Vista   operating system in a re-run of past antitrust battles.
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The EU executive commission rejected what it said had been a suggestion from US software giant Microsoft that it was delaying the launch of Microsoft's new Windows Vista operating system in Europe.
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HANOVER, Germany  - An executive at Scania ,   object of an unsolicited bid from Germany's MAN, has rejected   market speculation that Scania may be too small to remain   independent and successful over the long term.
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As president of a Dutch business school, Neelie Kroes once awarded former Microsoft chief Bill Gates an honorary degree. But as the European Union's top antitrust cop, she has fined his company millions.
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LUXEMBOURG/BRUSSELS  - A European Union court on  Wednesday upheld penalties imposed by the EU executive on  Microsoft, dismissing the software giant's appeal for a  suspension, according to a document obtained by Reuters.
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Microsoft's CEO in Europe said the company still hopes to settle with the European Commission over the sanctions imposed against it to correct its anticompetitive behavior.
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The California-based group has challenged the European Commissionâs finding from March that Microsoft abused its dominance of PC operating systems, but its top counsel said negotiations remained the preferred course.