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AP/BusinessWeek: Microsoft Rivals File Complaint with EU

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 22, 2006

“A group of Microsoft Corp.’s rivals filed a complaint with the
European Commission on Wednesday, alleging its business practices
threatened to deny real choice among competing software
products.

“The European Committee for Interoperable Systems–which
includes International Business Machines Corp., Oracle Corp.,
RealNetworks Inc., Nokia Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc.–said it
was asking EU regulators to end practices that reinforced
Microsoft’s existing monopolies and extended its market dominance
into current and future product markets…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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