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Becta Takes Microsoft Complaint To EC
News Becta, the organisation that advises the UK government on educational IT, has escalated its complaint over the interoperability of Microsoft's products to the European Commission. Becta has now taken its interoperability complaint up to the...
[May 13, 2008, 14:42]
Rivals Hit Microsoft With New EC Complaint
News We will respond quickly and comprehensively to any requests for information from the Commission on this complaint, but no such requests have been received so far," Microsoft added. A spokesperson for the European Commission told journalists that...
[February 22, 2006, 14:50]
Microsoft CEO: Google Complaint 'baseless'
Talkback What else is Ballmer going to say when he has the USDOJ in his back pocket? He will say he is complying with all EU problems also. This is a guy you can trust, from the company that gave us trustworthy computing.
[June 18, 2007, 13:46]
Rivals Hit Microsoft With New EC Complaint
Talkback Whatever. Office 12's file formats are fuly documented and XML-based. Vista's 'Avalon' presentation framework is also XML-based and fully documented. That's going to make it really hard for IBM Global Services to sell you a multi-million-dollar...
[February 23, 2006, 17:49]
Rivals Hit Microsoft With New EC Complaint
Talkback Chris Rankin, Good response. I fail to understand why many still interpret the decree to be about "opening" source code. I t has, and is the same in the US decree, always been about fair rights to interface with MS products.not about their source...
[February 23, 2006, 13:30]
Rivals Hit Microsoft With New EC Complaint
Talkback But it aint open.that_ is the complaint. regarding - "Office 12's file formats are fuly documented". Well, I guess if you call "This data is encrypted & we will use the DRM laws to prevent anyone else from accessing it" fully documented, you are...
[February 26, 2006, 16:10]
Rivals Hit Microsoft With New EC Complaint
Talkback This was never about "secret source". It's about undocumented protocols and interfaces that constantly give MS a "home advantage" in the market for Windows applications.
[February 23, 2006, 12:06]
Rivals Hit Microsoft With New EC Complaint
Talkback While I do not agree with many of Microsoft practices, it must be accepted that it is a commercial organisation that has developed the world's most successful operating system and a host of programmes that run on it.
[February 23, 2006, 10:34]
Site Taken Offline After Microsoft Complaint
News In an uncommonly harsh application of a widely used Internet enforcement tool, a Windows news site was taken offline for nearly 24 hours last week after Microsoft accused the site of infringing its copyrights.
[March 10, 2003, 10:28]
Microsoft Launches Anti-spam Suit
News According to Microsoft's complaint, the company is part of a wider spam gang operating out of Ukraine and the US. The complaint has been lodged against an unnamed company in the North Rhine-Westphalia region of Germany and its managing director.
[June 21, 2005, 15:35]
Microsoft Hits Back At Opera Antitrust Claims
News The Norwegian browser company announced on Thursday that it had filed an antitrust complaint with the European Commission against Microsoft, over Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) web browser. Opera's complaint was that Microsoft is abusing its...
[December 14, 2007, 11:48]
Microsoft Sued Over Upgrade Programme
News A New Zealand company has filed a complaint against Microsoft, alleging that a subscription-like software-licensing programme violates that country's laws. The complaint claims that Microsoft's Software Assurance programme allows the software giant...
[April 9, 2002, 9:15]
Privacy Groups To Take On Microsoft?
News In a letter to Microsoft managers Tuesday, Junkbuster.com President Jason Catlett said a formal complaint over privacy concerns with Microsoft's statements regarding two identifiers in Windows and its applications remained an "option.
[March 10, 1999, 9:42]
Privacy Advocates Take Aim At Windows XP
News Several privacy groups are set to file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission on Thursday, regarding Microsoft's imminent release of Windows XP, alleging unfair and deceptive trade practices. Microsoft spokesman, Jim Cullinan, said the...
[July 26, 2001, 10:28]
Customers Report Microsoft CRM Problems
News The main complaint with the software, which Microsoft released in January, is that it inserts a long jumble of letters and numbers into the subject line of emails sent through the system. Out of 300 companies that have purchased Microsoft CRM, the...
[March 10, 2003, 11:33]
Microsoft Sues Taiwanese Mouse Maker
News Microsoft said it has filed a complaint with the International Trade Commission after failing to be able to negotiate a licensing deal with Primax Electronics. In the complaint, Microsoft is seeking an order barring Primax from importing infringing...
[July 31, 2008, 8:57]
Privacy Groups Turn Up Heat On Windows XP, Passport
News During a media event here, Marc Rotenberg, executive director for the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), said the groups had filed a 12-page supplemental complaint "alleging that Microsoft by offering Passport (authentication) and...
[August 16, 2001, 8:50]
Microsoft Hit With Another Antitrust Suit
News The complaint adds that Microsoft has wielded its "monopoly power to restrict how PC makers install competing media players while forcing every Windows user to take Microsoft's media player, whether they want it or not.
[December 19, 2003, 7:50]
Sun After MS Trade Secrets, Says MS
News The EC has been investigating Microsoft's activities in the server market for more than a year, based on a complaint by server maker Sun Microsystems, and formally launched a probe in February. Sun's complaint is based on their desire to gain...
[August 3, 2000, 16:27]
BECTA - The Track Record
Blog However, let's remember the group is also taking taking a complaint against Microsoft to the EU, although it was earlier criticised for being too closely aligned with Microsoft, to the detriment of open source.
[June 16, 2008, 11:10]
