New Microsoft EC complaint
p2p news / p2pnet: Microsoft, "threatens to deny enterprises and individual consumers real choice," say customers and business rivals in a new unfair competition complaint.
Filed with the European Commission by the European Committee for Interoperable Systems (ECIS), it, "asks the Commission to put an end to the practices that the group says have hemmed in its members," says Reuters, going on:
"The European Commission has been locked in a battle with Microsoft over a 2004 EU court ruling that the software giant abused its dominant market position. Microsoft faces a 2 million euro ($2.4 million) daily fine if the Commission decides it has not complied with that ruling."
The ECIS, whose members include IBM, Nokia Corp and Oracle, said it had, "filed a complaint with the European Commission against a range of Microsoft business practices that threaten to deny enterprises and individual consumers real choice among competing software products," says Dow Jones News Wires.
"It said it wanted to stop Microsoft from bundling new products that would ‘reinforce Microsoft’s existing monopolies and extend its market dominance into a range of existing and pre-announced future product areas.’ It cited Microsoft ‘dominant Office productivity applications’."
Also See:
Reuters – Group files new complaint with EU against Microsoft, February 22, 2006
Dow Jones News Wires – Microsoft’s rivals file new complaint with European Union, February 22, 2006
