Gates Visits EU Headquarters, Sidesteps Antitrust Officials
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Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) chairman Bill Gates is visiting the headquarters of the European Union in Brussels, Belgium, but has not scheduled a meeting with the head of the antitrust office, which has imposed measures on the company.
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The European judge deciding whether to suspend the European Union's landmark antitrust ruling against Microsoft Corp. pushed the EU to justify its sweeping order &#151; questioning Friday whether the move would rein in the U.S. software giant or raise costs for others.
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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&#39;s top  antitrust cop, she has fined his company millions.
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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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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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The judge deciding whether to suspend the European Union's landmark antitrust ruling against Microsoft Corp. prefers encouraging parties to find a "third way" outside of litigation &#151; partly because that's the way things are often done back in his home country of Denmark.
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European Union regulators said Monday they were investigating whether software giant Microsoft Corp. used its market dominance to squeeze out office software and Internet browser rivals.
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Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates, during an appearance on Friday at the US Computer History Museum, expressed no fear of Linux usurping Windows in the software industry.
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Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates speaks Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2004 at Microsoft Corp.&#39;s annual shareholders meeting in Bellevue, Wash.
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European Union regulators said Monday they were investigating software giant Microsoft Inc. for abusing its monopoly by squeezing out office software and Internet browser rivals.
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Microsoft Corp., the world&#39;s largest software maker, will learn today whether it must immediately comply with a European Union antitrust order or can delay implementing the measures for two years or more.
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A top European Union judge  challenged the EU executive's reasoning in its antitrust court  battle with Microsoft Corp. Friday, questioning why it opposed  the U.S. software giant's setting industry standards.
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The European Commission has begun two new antitrust investigations of Microsoft, including one probe into Microsoft's tactic of bundling software products with its Windows OS.
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Microsoft chairman Bill Gates will meet with French President Jacques Chirac here Wednesday during a visit to France to defend his company's software against competition from Linux and other free Internet-based software.
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(InfoWorld) - Microsoft's Bill Gates ushered his company'sÂ new Vista OSÂ and Office 2007 software suite into Europe on Tuesday morning, near the end of a round-the-world event that brings the software to 70 countries in 19 languages. Gates, who wore a pin-stripe suit and burgundy tie, started his presentation about 20 minutes late at the U.K. launch event at the British Library, which is working with Microsoft toÂ digitize parts of its vast collection. He recalled how far the company had come since 1995, the year the 32-bit Windows OS was launched along with the Internet Explorer browser, now one of the company's most-used applications. Gates was keen to present Vista as a milestone for the company, but also aÂ cornerstone OSÂ for manipulating video and photos, conducting e-commerce transactions and using VOIP (voice over Internet protocol) functions. "Today is a big day and is really the start of something different," Gates said. Microsoft continued its strong push around the world to complement the Vista launch in New York on Monday. In Paris on Tuesday morning, Microsoft flooded the out-of-town business district at La DÃ©fense with Vista-liveried Smart cars and Segways among rush-hour pedestrians. Gates touched on the revamp of the Microsoft Office productivity suite, saying its new interface "only takes a few hours to learn." While Microsoft has said that Office 2007's new "ribbon" menu, which replaces the drop-down menus and toolbars, should make it easier to find certain functions, some users have said it is tricky to adapt to. After Gates' initial presentation, he shared the stage with British Library Chief Executive Lynne Brindley to discuss the software application Turning the Pages 2.0 from Armadillo Systems, which the British Library uses to scan and compile downloadable renditions of texts in its collection. Gates allowed an item from his personal collection to be scanned. He owns the Codex Leicester, one of only a few existing notebooks belonging to the artist and scientist Leonardo da Vinci, who died in 1519. The British Library holds the Codex Arundel, another rare collection of his notes. Both have been digitized into realistic-looking renderings that allows users to "turn" the pages of the texts while viewing online. Brindley called it an "electronic reunification" of the texts that will help scholars study them. Both codexes are on the British Library's Web site. Â
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EU competition regulators said Monday they had launched two new antitrust probes against Microsoft, opening fresh fronts in their battle against the US software giant's dominant market power.
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Bill Gates' visit to Denmark is planned mostly as a "courtesy visit" to Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen.