Microsoft Warns Europeans New System Could Be Delayed
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Microsoft may delay the introduction of its Windows Vista operating system because of unclear antitrust guidance from the European Commission.
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The US may delay activating its Europe-based missile defence shield, Defence Secretary Robert Gates says.
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Software giant Microsoft Corp. will for the first time be forced by antitrust regulators to change how it designs and sells its widely used Windows operating system, after a European Union judge Wednesday rejected the company's bid to postpone sanctions against it.- washingtonpost.com
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In a series of continuing twists, Microsoft has now announced that their Internet release of Service Pack 2 will be delayed in light of serious complaints from current users who have installed it.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium -- The European Union escalated its trans-Atlantic fight with Microsoft Corp. yesterday , threatening huge new fines against the software maker over claims it is asking rivals to pay too much for information that would help their servers work with Windows.
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The European Commission warns that Microsoft could face further fines for failing to comply with its anti-trust rulings.
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Four European Parliament members warned the European Commission that its actions toward Microsoft could hurt the competitiveness of European businesses by delaying the release of Vista, Microsoft's next operating system.
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LUXEMBOURG -- Microsoft Corp., which was ruled an illegal monopolist by the European Union in March, will learn next month whether it can wait years before complying with an EU order to sell a stripped-down version of Windows and disclose information on
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You will comply The European Commission has warned Microsoft it could face further penalties over what it calls "unreasonable pricing" of interoperability information.â¦
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Microsoft suffered a big setback this week in Europe. Should other large tech companies be worried?
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Microsoft Corp.  said on  Thursday it will delay the release of its Office 2007 business  productivity software to improve product performance in the  latest setback for the world&#039;s largest software maker.
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The European Commission warned Microsoft  on Thursday it faced further fines in its long-running antitrust battle with Brussels, this time for seeking unreasonable prices from software makers for vital data.
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LUXEMBOURG Microsoft warned a European appeals court on Thursday that software developers and consumers would face dire consequences should legal sanctions intended to hinder its ability to dominate the markets for desktop media players and server
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update In order to get the next update of its Windows operating system out the door, Microsoft will delay some of the key improvements that had been planned.
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Microsoft, seeking to stave off legal sanctions aimed at hindering its ability to dominate markets for desktop media players and server software, warned a European appeals court on Thursday that software developers and consumers would face dire
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Microsoft warned a European appeals court that software developers and consumers would face dire consequences should it be penalized.
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(InfoWorld) - Microsoft tried to dazzle the antitrust regulators in Brussels on Thursday with new research that illustrates how immense the effect of Windows Vista will be next year on Europe's IT industry and the broader economy. Microsoft warnedÂ earlier this week that the launch of Vista might be delayed in Europe because of the regulators' concerns about its impact on competition. On Thursday it used research conducted by IDC -- and sponsored by Microsoft -- to illustrate how much Vista is set to benefit Europe in terms of revenues and jobs next year. Within a year of going on sale, IDC said, Windows Vista will be installed on more than 30 million computers in the six E.U. countries included in the study: Germany, France, the U.K., Spain, Poland and Denmark. More than 100 million computers worldwide will run Vista within a year of its launch. The predictions come from a research paper titled "The economic impact of Microsoft Windows Vista." Vista-related employment will account for more than 20 percent of all IT jobs within a year of its arrival, IDC predicted. That translates into around one million IT professionals in the six countries, including 100,000 new jobs by the end of 2007, assuming that Vista is launched on time at the beginning of next year. The European Commission, Europe's top antitrust regulator, is concerned that new features planned for Vista, like its improved security software, willÂ fall foul of the same antitrust rulesÂ the company was found guilty of breaching two and a half years ago with its bundling of Windows Media Player. Jean-Philippe Courtois, president of Microsoft International, said the impact of Vista will be much greater than the direct benefits to Microsoft. "The economic opportunity Windows Vista creates for small and large companies across the region is clearly much more significant," he said at a press conference to unveil the study. But some commentators saw the unveiling of the IDC research as a way of pressuring the Commission to back off. Last week, four members of the European Parliament wrote to competition commissioner Neelie Kroes warning her not to scupper the launch of Vista. "It looks like operation shock and awe," said one person following Microsoft's antitrust travails in Europe, who asked not to be named. Microsoft is "losing the legal argument, so it's turning to political means to maintain its abusive monopoly," said the person, who is close to some of Microsoft's nearest competitors. For every euro ($1.27) Microsoft generates in its own revenues from Vista, other firms in the six countries that are involved in distributing the OS, building applications for it or servicing computers using Vista will generate â¬14 (17.76) in sales, IDC said. These companies should sell "over â¬32 billion ($40.6 billion) in products and services revolving around Windows Vista," IDC said. "Rapid and widespread adoption of Windows Vista means that its launch ... will have a pronounced positive impact on local economies throughout Europe," IDC said. The six countries in the study account for over 65 percent of all IT spending in the European Union, Croatia, Norway, and Switzerland. (IDC is owned by International Data Group, the parent company of IDG News Service.)