We are inching closer to a resolution to the European Commission’s latest antitrust complaint against Microsoft. The software giant has submitted its response to the Commission’s current inquiry into whether the bundling of Internet Explorer with the Windows operating system violates antitrust laws.
The European Union’s probe was launched in January 2008 in response to allegations by Norwegian browser maker Opera that IE’s bundling with Windows hurt competition in the browser space. Beyond browser tie-in, the EU is also looking into IE standards compliance as well as a complaint by the European Committee for Interoperable Systems over Office 2007 and the .NET Framework.
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