Italian court rules against HP on pre-installed Windows
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Orders computer giant to cough up refund An Italian judge ruled in favour of a Hewlett Packard (HP) customer who asked for a refund because the Compaq notebook he had bought came pre-loaded with Microsoft's Windows XP and Works 8.â¦
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Microsoft Corp. will be forced for the first time to offer a version of its flagship Windows operating system stripped of a major feature, based on a court order issued yesterday.
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Secondo indiscrezioni in vista cordata anti-Microsoft
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The European Union&#39;s Court of First Instance has rejected Microsoft&#39;s appeal of the European Commission&#39;s 2004 landmark antitrust decision against the company, which concluded that the software giant had abused its dominant position in the computer industry &quot;by leveraging its near monopoly in the market for PC operating systems.&quot;
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ROMA - Una nuova falla e&#39; stata individuata nel sistema operativo Microsoft Windows. E&#39; la stessa azienda di Redmond ad annunciarlo, definendo &quot;critica&quot; questa vulnerabilita e mettendo subito a disposizione
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L'obiettivo e' quello di difendersi da Microsoft
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Ferma la linea difensiva del colosso di Redmond: l&#39;eliminazione del lettore Media Player da Windows, secondo Bill Gates, infatti causerebbe al gruppo statunitense un danno molto grave. Ultimo round davanti
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Microsoft Corporation lost a major appeal today in a European court, which ruled that the world&#39;s largest software company must comply with sanctions imposed by regulators and strip features from its Windows product.
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(InfoWorld) - When MicrosoftÂ releases Windows VistaÂ to business customers in Europe on Thursday, it will be offering an extra version of the OS to comply with the European Commission's antitrust ruling against the company. In itsÂ 2004 decision, the Commission ordered Microsoft to release additional versions of Windows that comeÂ without its Windows Media Player software. The idea was to prevent Microsoft's dominance in the desktop OS market from giving it an unfair advantage over rivals like RealNetworksÂ and Apple Computer. That resulted in versions of Windows XP called "Edition N," which sold for the same price as the standard Windows XP. With the release of Windows Vista, Microsoft is having to do the same again. The company was still working with the Commission to determine exactly how many N versions are required, but it expects to offer them for both home and business users, said Thor Windham-Wright, a spokesman with Microsoft's public relations agency. "To comply with the ruling, Microsoft will have to produce an Edition N for all future editions of Windows," confirmed Tom Brookes, Microsoft's spokesman in Brussels. Microsoft released Windows Vista Business and Windows Vista Enterprise to its volume licensing customers on Thursday, along with Exchange Server 2007, its e-mail server product, and the Office 2007 productivity suite. The consumer editions of Windows Vista are due for release on Jan. 30. The main advances in Vista are better security, its revamped Aero user interface and, for businesses, features to help to reduce PC management costs, Microsoft has said. Critics have noted that there has been little support from PC makers for the "N" versions of Windows, undermining the effectiveness of the Commission's ruling. Most PC makers chose not to offer Windows XP PCs with Edition N, citing little interest from customers and the expense of supporting extra versions of the OS. The antitrust ruling also ordered Microsoft to release protocols used by its work group servers to allow competing software to operate more smoothly with Windows. It isn't launching the server version of Vista,Â code-named Longhorn, until late 2007, so the company doesn't have to submit the protocol information for it yet. âDocumentation for Vista work group server products would be needed when they do launch a Vista server system, but we donât require documentation from the Vista PC OS,â Todd said. If rival software manufacturers are unhappy about Vistaâs impact on competition and complain to the European competition regulator, Todd said the Commission will consider their complaints âon their merits.â It's hard to predict how the coming months will proceed with Microsoft's competitors and the Commission, said Michael Silver, research vice president with Gartner Inc. "I think as long as Microsoft is around and they're dominant they're going to attract companies that say they are being treated unfairly," he said. Enterprises in Europe will probably take longer to adopt Vista than those in the U.S., since European companies typically use their hardware and software longer, Silver said. Gartner predicts most organizations will test Vista for 12 to 18 months before widely deploying the OS. "Certainly, this is just a beginning," Silver said. But Microsoft was quick to promote early adopters. The Arsenal soccer club, which plays at Emirates Stadium where Microsoft is holding its U.K. launch event Thursday afternoon, is among those already using the new software, the company said. (Paul Meller in Brussels contributed to this report.) Â
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Il colosso informatico Microsoft ha chiesto ai giudici del tribunale dellâUnione Europea, di mettersi una mano sulla coscienza e fare in modo di non costringere la societÃ  di Bill Gate a modificare il proprio sistema operativo Windows.
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A European Union court today upheld a ruling that Microsoft must offer a version of Windows that doesn't include its Media Player software and must also publish application programming interfaces that would make it easier for competitors to make products that work well with its operating system.
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A European Union court rules on Monday whether Microsoft abused its near-monopoly on computer operating systems to push out rivals, in a protracted case that has major implications on the EU's power to enforce antitrust policy.
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Europeâs second-highest court today upheld a ruling that found the software company abused its dominance in computer operating systems.
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Microsoft ha pubblicato ieri una patch per correggere una grave falla di sicurezza che riguarda il trattamento delle immagini JPEG da parte dei suoi prodotti, fra cui Windows e Office. Con questa falla, un
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LUXEMBOURG, Oct. 1 -- A European judge today cast a skeptical eye on whether Microsoft Corp. should be forced to create two versions of its Windows operating system, one with its program for playing digital music and videos and one without.
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A European Union court rules on Monday  whether Microsoft abused its near-monopoly on computer  operating systems to push out rivals, in a protracted case that  has major implications on the EU's power to enforce antitrust  policy.
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The European Union Court of First Instance has upheld the US$665.4 million fine on Microsoft imposed by the executive European Commission in March and will now force the company to offer European computer makers a version of the Windows operating system