Reuters: Microsoft: Asia Windows Rival Would Raise Concerns

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“A plan by Japan, China and South Korea to develop an
alternative operating system to Microsoft Corp.’s Windows software
would raise concerns over fair competition, the world’s No. 1
software maker said on Friday.

“Japan, the world’s second largest economy, made a proposal at
an Asian economic summit this week to build an inexpensive and
trustworthy open-source operating system that would be based on a
system such as Linux, which can be copied and modified freely.

“‘We’d like to see the market decide who the winners are in the
software industry,’ Tom Robertson, Microsoft’s Tokyo-based director
for government affairs in Asia, told Reuters in a telephone
interview…”

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