Microsoft Faces New EU Competition Probe
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DRM software stops digital files from being copied and has already seen heavy investment from Time Warner, Microsoft and Sony. Before the buy-out in April, the majority owner of ContentGuard
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A European Union court will rule Sept. 17 on Microsoft's challenge to an order that that imposed hundreds of millions of dollars of fines on the world's biggest software company for what the regulators said was anti-competitive activity, the court said Tuesday.
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MICROSOFT faces another in-depth probe by the European Commission, this time into plans by the software giant and media group Time Warner to acquire joint control of US ContentGuard Holdings.
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The European Union's Competition Commission said today it might levy fines of $4 million a day against Microsoft amid concerns that the company is overcharging for the information rivals need to make their products work smoothly with Windows.
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Software giant Microsoft Corp. and the media and entertainment powerhouse Time Warner Inc. ran into fresh trouble with the European Union on Wednesday as antitrust regulators ordered an in-depth probe of their deal to collaborate in making anti-piracy software.
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The European Commission is due to fine  Microsoft on Wednesday as part of a hard-line approach toward  getting the software giant to comply with antitrust sanctions  that appears to be bearing fruit.
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European antitrust regulators worry that Microsoft could dominate the burgeoning market for digital rights management software
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The European Commission on Wednesday opened an in-depth investigation into plans for joint takeover of ContentGuard, a US anti-piracy tech firm, by Microsoftand Time Warner.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium Aug. 25, 2004 - Risking another trans-Atlantic tussle over Microsoft Corp., European Union antitrust regulators said Wednesday they were investigating whether the software giant&#39;s deal with media conglomerate Time Warner Inc.
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EC probe extended, McAfee puts boot in More bad news for Microsoft's delayed operating system Vista - the European Commission is widening an investigation into whether or not it breaches competition law.â¦
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A European Union court will decide on Monday whether Microsoft abused its near-monopoly position on the world's 1 billion computers and servers to push smaller competitors out of the marketplace.
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The European Commission has opened two new antitrust investigations of Microsoft&#39;s activities.The first case is in response to a complaint from the European Committee for Interoperable Systems, a Brussels-based trade group of which Opera Software is a member, and concerns the interoperability of Windows with other software, the Commission said Monday.The second investigation is looking into Microsoft&#39;s tactic of bundling software products with its Windows operating system. This follows a complaint to the Commission by Opera, a Norwegian browser developer.Both issues featured in the Commission&#39;s landmark March 2004 antitrust decision against Microsoft, which the company unsuccessfully challenged in court.(More to come.)
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The European Commission has decided to open an in-depth investigation into the proposed joint acquisition by Microsoft and Time Warner of a US company called ContentGuard.
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The European Commission turned up the  pressure on Microsoft  on Thursday, warning the U.S.  software giant of new fines and accusing it of serial defiance  of an antitrust ruling made nearly three years ago.
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The European Commission has again criticized Microsoft's response to a 2004 antitrust ruling, opening up the possibility of further fines for the company. The regulator said that the software giant proposes overcharging for vital interoperability information needed by rival software makers to allow their products work properly with the Windows operating system.
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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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The European Commission launches new investigations into whether Microsoft breaks anti-competition laws.