Microsoft&#39;s Softer Tune with the EC
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Microsoft&#39;s day in court -- this time, Europe&#39;s Court of First Instance in Luxembourg -- doesn&#39;t come until Sept. 30. But the software giant is already on the offensive, holding court of its own with a Sept.
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Microsoft Corp.&#39;s offer to share the source code of Office 2003 with governments may be a positive move, but governments say it is unlikely to make much difference to which software they choose.
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Microsoft&#39;s (Quote, Chart) dominance on the desktop may turn out to be Sun Microsystems&#39; (Quote, Chart) gain in the end. A letter to Sun Microsystems&#39; COO Jonathan Schwartz by the European Commission (EC) this
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Despite Microsoft&#39;s many woes, the honchos got a bump this year. Considering the company&#39;s outlook, their next may be a ways off.
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Like many, I was pretty shocked by the recent Microsoft-EU deal to settle the long-running investigation into interoperability issues.  This was not so much because of the way Microsoft has used every kind of delaying tactic it could before eventually agreeing (for the nth time) to try harder in the future.  My real dismay was provoked by the gap between appearance and reality â a chasm that I think bodes ill for the future of open source. read more
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The European Commission, the antitrust arm of the European Union, has ordered Microsoft to offer a version of Windows without a bundled media player and to disclose more technical information to its rivals on a temporary, or interim, basis until the
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NEW YORK - When Microsoft decided to throttle back on some of the features of its Hotmail Web-based e-mail service, it didn&#39;t affect me one bit.
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Just because Microsoft has said it will comply immediately with a European Court judge&#39;s order to follow specified antitrust remedies doesn&#39;t mean life will be a bowl of cherries for Microsoft&#39;s partners, developers and even its competitors.
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BERLIN While competitors hailed a European judge&#39;s decision to force Microsoft to sell a stripped-down version of its Windows computer operating software without a media player, analysts said European consumers may be less than pleased.
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Microsoft can change.  Just give it a few more decades.
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As the slippery due date draws near for the Windows release, Microsoft and the EU are now at odds over security features.
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While Microsoft (MSFT ) has extinguished most of its legal flare-ups in the US, its fires in Europe continue to rage. The European Commission&#39;s antitrust unit is still tussling with the software giant over
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La prima battaglia di Microsoft contro la sentenza Antitrust Europea Ã¨ persa e senza sospensione temporanea. Dal prossimo Gennaio esce la nuova versione di XP senza il Media Player (Windows XP Reduced Media Edition).
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Microsoft's decision to pare back features of the upcoming OS is not bad news, some say.
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The EU struck at the commercial backbone of Microsoftâs global software empire today - forcing the company for the first time to strip its Windows platform of a popular feature to give competitors a better shot at success.
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This time, it&#39;s not Andreessen&#39;s former company Netscape Communications that&#39;s taking on Microsoft&#39;s Internet Explorer; it&#39;s the emerging popularity of smaller products such as Apple Computer&#39;s Safari and open-source browser Firefox, Andreessen said.
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Last week, Microsoft quietly launched a program to address piracy issues with their software. The new program called &quot;Windows Genuine Advantage&quot; is a new validation on Microsoft&#39;s download center.