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The hearings will focus on competition in digital markets, anti-competitive conduct of “dominant firms,” and whether current laws and enforcement policies are adequate. Continue reading...

By Paul Thurrott The European Union’s top antitrust official said over the weekend that he has confirmed with Microsoft that the software giant will change Windows 8 to comply with any EU antitrust requirements. The comments, allegedly made by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, refer to a new...

Skype continues to go its own way (this time with video codecs) | ZDNet

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In an effort to avoid customer confusion caused by hardware disparities and fragmentation, Microsoft is is apparently asking chipmakers and hardware developers for forthcoming Windows 8 tablets to form one-on-one relationships, wherein chipmakers will supply one and only one tablet maker...

A group representing over 5,000 users of vector drawing software FreeHand has filed a class action lawsuit against Adobe Inc. in the California District Court for antitrust violations. Adobe almost acquired FreeHand in 1994 when it acquired Aldus, but the Federal Trade Commission put a...

# inbrief Odds are good that Windows 8 is coming in 2012 , which means lots of interesting information is starting to leak out regarding what we can expect. The latest: Rumor has it Windows 8 will finally have a built-in PDF reader , called Modern Reader. Microsoft has had good (antitrust)...

Microsoft plans to file a formal complaint with the European Commission Thursday, accusing Google of abusing its position as the region's dominant search engine. The software giant -- once subject to its own landmark antitrust investigation in the United States and Link Removed -- claimed in...

Link Removed In Silicon Valley’s best-known David-and-Goliath story, Thomas McCoy was the guy who slung the stone. The general counsel of Advanced Micro Devices didn’t topple mighty Intel, but his impact was at least felt in the chip giant’s pocketbook. McCoy, 59, said Wednesday that he is...

Do you remember if you bought memory between 1999 and 2002? If you did, bet you thought it was really expensive. A major memory price fixing conspiracy is currently undergoing settlement in the United States, in which nearly every major DRAM manufacturer has been implicated. The alleged price...

April 21, 2010 More Woes For Google !!

The new screen, seen here, will pop up for any European Windows (XP/Vista/7) user who has IE set as their default browser, starting around March 1st. Link Removed It randomizes new choices for web browsers in an impartial manner, offering direct links to download. It's like Microsoft is...

Link Removed - Invalid URL For the next five years, Microsoft will be serving an update to all supported Windows clients in an attempt to promote end user choice when it comes down to the default browser associated with the operating system. The European Antitrust Commission accepted a...

Link Removed - Invalid URL For the next five years, Microsoft will be serving an update to all supported Windows clients in an attempt to promote end user choice when it comes down to the default browser associated with the operating system. The European Antitrust Commission accepted a...

Microsoft to randomly generate EU browser ballot list In response to complaints from browser makers, Microsoft has revised its antitrust-settlement with European Union regulators so that Windows users will see a browser ballot screen that randomly lists the icons of the top five browsers upon...

Opera Software, the Norwegian browser maker that sparked an antitrust investigation into Microsoft business practices in Europe, remains dissatisfied with its rival's move to dump IE8 from Windows 7. Link Removed - Invalid URL

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