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- Article date:
- October 8, 2009
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EUROPEAN UNION
European Union regulators said they were preparing to settle a
long and costly antitrust battle with Microsoft with a deal to give
Windows users a choice of Web browsers.
Microsoft promised the changes after the E.U. charged it with
violating antitrust rules by tying the Internet Explorer browser to
the Windows operating system installed on most of the world's
desktop computers.
Microsoft's general counsel, Brad Smith, said the announcement
was "a big step" toward ending the company's antitrust woes in
Europe.
-- Associated Press
TECHNOLOGY
The Justice Department has opened an investigation into
allegations that IBM abused its dominance of the mainframe business
to squeeze ...