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- More questions (and even a few answers) about Windows 7 E
- It's been a week since Microsoft publicly acknowledged its plan to release a browserless version of Windows 7 that would be sold in Europe only, as a way to potentially appease European antitrust regulators. Since then, I've gotten more than a few reader questions about Windows 7 E -- and...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Antitrust, Microsoft Windows, Corporate Law, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Business Operations, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-06-18
- Will you be joining the Opera boycott?
- Opera's antitrust complaint against Microsoft from 2007 has now ballooned into a full-blown EU antitrust case into browser bundling. As you'd expect, this antitrust case isn't popular with everyone, and one Windows enthusiast website has launched campaign calling on users to boycott the Opera browser. Will you be boycotting Opera?...
- Tags: Opera Software, Antitrust, Corporate Law, Security, Business Operations, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2009-06-15
- Microsoft to EU: Antitrust this! Will remove IE from Win 7 in Europe
- Microsoft to EU: Antitrust this! Will remove IE from Win 7 in EuropeRE: Microsoft to EU: Antitrust this! Will remove IE from Win 7 in EuropeI can't believe people are still complaining that Microsoft includes a browser with Windows? How are they going to handle people downloading another...
- Tags: Web browsers, Web browser, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Win 7, Opera Software, antitrust
- Discussion threads 2009-06-12
- Microsoft to EU: Antitrust this! Will remove IE from Win 7 in Europe
- News.com reported Wednesday that Microsoft plans to strip Internet Explorer from sales of Windows 7 in Europe. Redmond plans to basically draw an artificial line in the sand and say, "Ooops, no IE in this Windows! But, uh, if OEMs just happen want to install a browser with the operating...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Antitrust, Europe, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, European Union, Web Browsers, Microsoft Windows, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-06-12
- European regulators, Opera weigh in on Microsoft's Windows 7 E plan
- At the end of the day Microsoft acknowledged its plan to ship a browser-less version of Windows 7 in the European Union to attempt to appease antitrust regulators, those same regulators and Opera Software weighed in on Redmond's plan. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Opera Software, Regulator, Microsoft Windows 7, Antitrust, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Regulations, Corporate Law, Government, Business Operations, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-06-12
- EC responds to Microsoft's browser move
- The European Commission on Thursday responded with a mixed assessment of Microsoft's move to strip Internet Explorer out of European versions of Windows 7. The European Commission on Thursday responded with a mixed assessment of Microsoft's move to strip Internet Explorer out of European versions of Windows 7. ...
- Tags: Commission, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, EC, Web Browsers, Sales Force Management, Internet, Sales, European Commission, Microsoft, antitrust, IE, browsers, Internet Explorer, Ina Fried CNET News
- News items 2009-06-12
- Google says it loves competition
- With Justice Department scrutiny over the Google Books Settlement only the the leading edge of antitrust regulators' attention to Google, the company has launched a dog-and-pony show dedicated to combating the impression that more control is needed. In a presentation PDF acquired by Consumer Watchdog,...
- Tags: Google Inc., Antitrust, Corporate Law, Security, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-06-11
- Justice inquiries into Google Book Deal show it's all but dead
- Now, there can be no question that the Google Book Deal is in serious trouble. The New York Times and Wall Street Journal report. It seems the Justice Department has been really ramping up their inquiry into the deal. The Justice Department has sent the...
- Tags: Google Inc., Antitrust, U.S. Department Of Justice, Corporate Law, Litigation, Security, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-06-09
- Fighting off antitrust, Google says it's not dominant
- Fighting off antitrust, Google says it's not dominantGoogle may be a monopoly....The question is; is Google an abusive monopoly?DOJ should focus on M$this so called Google monopoly is FUD spread by M$ agents.RE: Fighting off antitrust, Google says it's not dominantThey have a very high market share for...
- Tags: Corporate law, SECURITY, Google Inc., Google Says, antitrust
- Discussion threads 2009-06-08
- Fighting off antitrust, Google says it's not dominant
- The Washington Post is running a piece from The Big Money's Jeff Horwitz with the amusing headline "Google Says It's Actually Quite Small." Google, Hurwitz says, is attempting to redefine itself out of market dominance. With its absolute dominance of search advertising plain for all to see...
- Tags: Google Inc., Internet Search Advertising, Antitrust, Corporate Law, Search, Security, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-06-07
- Russian antitrust unit targets Microsoft over XP availability
- Russian antitrust unit targets Microsoft over XP availabilityThe real reason Russia wants XP to remainMy guess is that the Russians are attempting to keep the older, less secure operating systems around as they have spent a great deal of time and money learning to hack those systems. Heaven forbid if...
- Tags: Operating systems, SECURITY, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows XP, XP availability, operating system, antitrust unit, antitrust
- Discussion threads 2009-06-04
- Russian antitrust unit targets Microsoft over XP availability
- The antitrust police are after Microsoft again, but this time in Russia. Unlike other antitrust investigations involving Windows, the Russian case is focusing on Microsoft's phase-out of XP, rather than bundling of various components into the base operating system. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Antitrust, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Corp., Antitrust Police, Corporate Law, Security, Business Operations, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-06-04
- Feds to probe tech hiring practices; Good luck with that one
- The Justice Department is reportedly investigating whether tech titans such as Yahoo, Apple and Google are in cahoots on recruiting and hiring practices. If true, these companies could be in violation of antitrust laws. Good luck finding the paper trail on that one. In fact, this DOJ...
- Tags: Talent, Hiring, Google Inc., Antitrust, U.S. Department Of Justice, Exec, Recruitment & Selection, Corporate Law, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-06-03
- Are tech companies agreeing not to steal top execs?
- Tom Foremski relates a Deal Pipeline report that the Justice Dept. is looking into collusion among the big tech companies not to poach each others' top employees. [DOJ] has sent letters to at least a dozen major computer hardware and software companies. Google Inc., Yahoo!...
- Tags: Antitrust, U.S. Department Of Justice, Corporate Law, Security, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-06-02
- MSFT passed on chance to speak to EU's top antitrust official
- MSFT passed on chance to speak to EU's top antitrust officialNellie Kroes is a biased personNo point talking to her. Its like pouring water on a duck's back.Nellie has no sense of logic, doesn't know the competition in market place (she's a incompetent bureaucrat), has no idea of software development...
- Tags: Corporate law, Nellie Kroes, antitrust official, MSFT, antitrust
- Discussion threads 2009-05-22
- MSFT passed on chance to speak to EU's top antitrust official
- Hmm ... makes you wonder what they're afraid of. The New York Times -- reporting on the news this blog that Microsoft would not make oral arguments in the small matter of whether the embedding of Internet Explorer in Windows constitutes anticompetitive behavior -- revealed that Neelie Kroes, the competition...
- Tags: Commission, Antitrust, Microsoft Corp., European Union, MSFT, Sales Force Management, Sales, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-05-22
- Schmidt: Google aims to avoid Microsoft's antitrust mistakes
- Schmidt: Google aims to avoid Microsoft's antitrust mistakesSchmidt: Google aims to avoid Microsoft's antitrust mistakesInstead of making antitrust mistakes they will continue to make other mistakes? You know the ones like neglecting services after 6 months or not having their employees do any real work but instead play with office...
- Tags: Corporate law, SEARCH, Google Inc., antitrust mistake, antitrust, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-05-21
- Schmidt: Google aims to avoid Microsoft's antitrust mistakes
- Google CEO Eric Schmidt says that large companies are always worried about antitrust issues, but the search giant is working to "not make the mistakes, which in my view were quite tragic, that Microsoft made." Schmidt made the remarks in a long interview with the Financial Times....
- Tags: Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Antitrust, Microsoft Corp., Corporate Law, Security, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-21
- Will Intel face antitrust case in Australia?
- Will Intel face antitrust case in Australia?Setting BoundariesI hope that Australia will do what America should have done a long time ago and reign in Intel. Like America Australia has a vigorous and productive inventor community. Those inventors create jobs and bring prosperity to their communities. The...
- Tags: Corporate law, Free trade, Semiconductors, Good Business, Intel Corp., antitrust
- Discussion threads 2009-05-14
- Real files antitrust countersuit against Hollywood's "illegal cartel"
- Real Networks has turned the tables on Hollywood movie studios, filing a countersuit in U.S. District Court today that accuses the studios of violating antitrust laws by collaborating to form an "illegal cartel" that's trying to monopolize the DVD market. PDF The countersuit accuses the DVD Copy...
- Tags: Antitrust, Studio, Real, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-05-13

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