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Google Joins EU's Antitrust Case Against Microsoft Over IE

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on February 25, 2009 - 11:55am.
San Francisco - Google (NASD: GOOG) has joined the European Commission's antitrust case against Microsoft (NASD: MSFT), which is accused of discouraging competition through the bundling of its Internet Explorer browser with its Windows operating system, Reuters reported.

Google, which recently introduced its own Web browser, Chrome, joins fellow browser makers Mozilla (Firefox) and Opera in supporting the EU's efforts to force Microsoft to unbundle IE from Windows.

The European Commission found several years ago that Microsoft was in violation of antitrust laws for bundling Windows Media Player with Windows; the company eventually paid over $2 billion in fines

. Prior to that, U.S. courts also found that Microsoft broke the law by bundling its Web browser with Windows -- although the company was not forced to unbundle them at the time.

 

Related Links:
http://uk.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUKTRE51N6OA20090224

Published in DMW Daily, February 25, 2009
tags: Law | Policy | Microsoft | Google | Antitrust | European Commission | Internet Explorer | Chrome |



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