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| Intel Denies European Commission's Accusations |  | As expected, Intel is now being slapped with another Statement of Objections coming from the European Commission, in which the Santa Clara-based chip maker is accused of anti-competitive behavior. However, even if this is not the first time that Intel is facing this type of charg ... [read more >>] | | 18 July 2008, 08:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Intel Could Face New Antitrust Charges |  | Even if Intel's Q2 revenues have been fairly within initial expectations, this doesn't necessarily mean that the Santa-Clara based chips manufacturer is doing all that well. Or, there is also the possibility that perhaps everything is well with the company, and that it just isn’t genuinely concerned for the number of antitrust charges that are being thrown at it. On that note, it looks like the leading manufacturer of microproces ... [read more >>] | | 16 July 2008, 10:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Windows 7 Milestones Are Evolving, Being Dogfooded and Tested |  | Make no mistake about it, Windows 7 development milestones are cooking over at Microsoft. One thing should be extremely clear at this point in time. Microsoft's silence on Windows 7 should not be taken for inaction. Windows 7 M1 Build 6519 along with the public demonstrations of the next iteration of the Windows client in May 6, 2008 offer proof that Windows 7 is evolving, and that the operating system is not only dogfooded inside Mic ... [read more >>] | | 24 June 2008, 04:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Appoints New Anti-Antitrust Point Man |  | Starting back in 2004 with a 462 million Euro fine imposed against Microsoft by the European Union Antitrust Commission, the Redmond giant has consistently found itself losing battle after battle in the Eu anti-monopoly arena. In early 2008, the relationship between the company and the EU culminated with a $1.35 billion financial penalty motivated by Microsoft's failure to comply with antitrust rulings. Even before the new record fin ... [read more >>] | | 30 May 2008, 11:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Court Forces Intel to Hand AMD Further Documents |  | Intel has been ordered to hand in more documents to its arch-rival AMD, as part of the antitrust lawsuit initiated in 2007. According to the judges, the new documents will play a key role in finding whether Intel is guilty or not of antitrust behavior in Europe and China.
Intel began collecting critical data about its activity as soon as it found out that AMD started the legal dispute. The company followed the standard operati ... [read more >>] | | 17 May 2008, 04:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Appeal Against 899 Million Euro Fine a Long Shot |  | Microsoft made a new move at the end of the past week designed to take the European Union financial penalties saga one step further. The Redmond company has had a rough ride in the European arena cumulating a total of $2.5 billion worth of fines, but it has not hesitated to raise the stakes in its apparently continuous face-off with the EU Antitrust Commission by lodging an appeal against the latest financial penalty issued on February 27, ... [read more >>] | | 12 May 2008, 05:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 200 Million Pages Can't Be Wrong: Intel Sabotaged AMD's Business |  | The legal action filed by AMD against Intel in 2006 got new evidence to support AMD's allegations claiming that it had been sabotaged by its arch-rival on the processor market. According to the latest information emerging from the trial, AMD gathered 200 million pages of documents that say Intel paid its partners to ditch AMD.
Intel has been allegedly involved with major system vendors worldwide, such as Dell, IBM and HP ... [read more >>] | | 07 May 2008, 06:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| For Microsoft, No “Good” Open Source Deed Goes Unpunished |  | For Microsoft, no "good" open source deed goes unpunished. The Redmond company is bound to find this out the hard way, via an antitrust lawsuit filed in 2004 by current partner Novell. The U.S. Supreme Court refused to put an end to the multibillion-dollar lawsuit filed by Novell over its WordPerfect application, by rejecting Microsoft's appeal. At the end of 2006, Microsoft and Novell inked a landmark Windows-Linux interop ... [read more >>] | | 17 March 2008, 14:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| XP SP3 and Vista SP1 Are in the Clear, Word Is Still Out on Windows 7 |  | While Windows XP SP3 and Windows Vista are in the clear, word is still out on Windows 7, when it comes down to antitrust issues. With the exception of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 which has hit RTM on February 4, 2008, Microsoft is still cooking Windows XP Service Pack 3, and it is in the early stages of baking of Windows 7. And yet the Redmond company has had to submit all these products while still in the development phase for review, in ... [read more >>] | | 13 March 2008, 11:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| CEO Otellini Defends Intel In Antitrust Probe |  | Chip manufacturer Intel was represented by its CEO, Paul Otellini, during the hearings with the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium. The company had to fight the allegations brought by its arch-rival regarding antitrust practices on the European market.
The hearings took place behind closed doors, as previously reported, and Intel's spokespersons declined to provide additional information on Otellini's discussi ... [read more >>] | | 13 March 2008, 04:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Intel : Two Days Until The EU Antitrust Verdict Comes In |  | Chip manufacturer Intel is preparing its defense against the EU antitrust charges that have been issued last month. The lawsuit, grounded on regulators' allegations that the chip manufacturer had abused its dominant market position will result in severe financial damages if Intel is found guilty.
The US-based company has only two days to convince the court that the allegations are not true. The hearings will be held at th ... [read more >>] | | 11 March 2008, 07:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Serves Build of Windows 7 for Antitrust Flavor Testing |  | Microsoft's next iteration of the Windows operating system, and the successor of Windows Vista, is in the very early stages of cooking, but still, the platform is out and about. First off, the Redmond company offered Windows 7 Milestone 1 to its close partners in the beginning of January. At that time, even though Microsoft confirmed the existence of Windows 7, it only pointed out that the product was in planning. And yet, not only a ... [read more >>] | | 10 March 2008, 14:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Responds to the € 899 Million Antitrust Fine |  | On February 7, 2008, the European Union Antitrust Commission fined Microsoft no less than € 899 million, or approximately $1.3 billion, for failing to comply with the March 2007 ruling until 22 October 2007. The Commission underlined the fact that the penalty payment ... [read more >>] | | 27 February 2008, 13:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| EU Knocks Microsoft Out with a New € 900 Million Fine |  | Microsoft is getting jabs from all directions in the European Union arena. The software giant has found it hard to avoid the consequences of its "monopolistic" ways, and failed to dodge a couple of financial penalties imposed so far by the EU Antitrust Commission, following the landmark March 2004 ruling. Four years ago, the EU Antitrust Commission found that Microsoft had abused its Windows near-monopoly and dominant market posi ... [read more >>] | | 27 February 2008, 06:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| A $2.2 Billion "Slap on the Hand" Coming to Microsoft? |  | In the never-ending saga of Microsoft antitrust "slaps on the hand," the Redmond company might receive the healthiest financial penalty yet from the European Union Antitrust Commission. A reported fine of $2.2 billion is currently cooking by the EU Antitrust regulators, and could be served as early as February 26, 2008, according to sources who wished to remain anonymous, cited by ... [read more >>] | | 26 February 2008, 07:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Intel's Germany Headquarters, Raided by Antitrust Officers |  | Intel's offices in Munich, Germany, have been raided yesterday by European Commission representatives that are involved in antitrust investigations. Intel spokespersons acknowledged the fact that the company's offices have been ransacked during the search, but claimed that the departments gave their full cooperation with the authorities.
Jonathan Todd, spokesman for the European Commission claimed that the officers i ... [read more >>] | | 13 February 2008, 02:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft on a Short Monopoly Leash |  | Microsoft will continue to be held on a short monopoly leash for almost two more years, until 2009. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly has finally issued a ruling on January 29, essentially expanding the court oversight of Microsoft. The oversight, which began in 2002 as a direct consequence of a landmark antitrust settlement against the Redmond company, was initially set to expire at the end of 2007. In the past year, a fragment o ... [read more >>] | | 30 January 2008, 03:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| New York Allies With AMD and Claims Intel Is the Bully |  | The New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo today backed up AMD's accusations at rival Intel of anticompetitive behavior in the CPU market. The city Attorney General today stated that Intel’s "potential anticompetitive conduct warrant a full and factual investigation." This announcement comes more than two years after the antitrust lawsuit filled by AMD against rival Intel, alleging that the latter violated certai ... [read more >>] | | 11 January 2008, 03:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Opera vs. Internet Explorer – The Next Level of Browser Wars |  | Due to near monopoly that Microsoft enjoys on the operating system market, with the Windows platform, the Redmond company has managed to push additional technologies, products and services to the foreground, in the detriment of direct competitors. In this context, the dominance of Internet Explorer ... [read more >>] | | 13 December 2007, 08:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Gives Up on Antitrust |  | Microsoft has long been a landmark of monopoly worldwide. But this detail is about to change as the Redmond company has evolved, following the various antitrust rulings against it both at home and abroad. In this context, Microsoft has suffered antitrust scrutinies not only in the U.S. but also in the European Union as well as in South Korea. While on home soil, the Redmond company got nothing more than a slap over the hand from ... [read more >>] | | 16 October 2007, 10:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Intel Wants More Time for Antitrust Reply |  | The European Commission surely keeps itself busy as after all the racket and buzz that followed the official antitrust charges pressed against the most important chips manufacturing company in the world, Intel, the same body presented sometime ago another set for charges, this time against the memory developer Rambus and against mobile chip producer Qualcomm.
Returning to the European Commission versus Intel case of unlawful b ... [read more >>] | | 10 October 2007, 06:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| EU: Microsoft Down! Next Please! |  | Microsoft's presence on the European market has ended up costing the company €497 million as a consequence of an antitrust ruling passed by the European Commission antitrust regulators in March 2004. The EU decision was almost entirely upheld by the European Court of First Instance in Luxembourg and the financial penalties supported in their totality, marking a resounding defeat for Microsoft, found guilty of abusing its Windows monop ... [read more >>] | | 21 September 2007, 10:24GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Acer, Gateway Deal Rolls Along |  | Almost a month ago the Asian computer manufacturing company Acer publicly announced its plan to acquire the American system integrator Gateway for a sum of $710 million and after some legal problems with Gateway's investors the deal is one step closer to completion now.
According to the news site ... [read more >>] | | 20 September 2007, 10:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft in Europe – The Aftermath |  | Yesterday, the Court of First Instance in Luxembourg upheld the European Commission's March 2004 antitrust decision against Microsoft, finding that the company had abused its dominant market position with its Windows client. Back in 2004, the EU antitrust regulators ruled that the Redmond company had leveraged its Windows monopoly in order to push up its share on the work group server operating systems and for media players markets. B ... [read more >>] | | 18 September 2007, 09:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Gets Crushed in Europe |  | This week debuted with a bang of bad news for the Redmond company from over the pond. The antitrust authorities in Europe have won their face-off with Microsoft. Today, September 17, the European Court of First Instance in Luxembourg (Grand Chamber) found that Microsoft abused its dominant market position leveraging the Windows operating system’s monopoly as an unfair advantage over its rivals. The Court of First Instance rejecte ... [read more >>] | | 17 September 2007, 05:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Monopolist Practices Could Cost Microsoft $1 Billion |  | Microsoft could end up paying financial penalties of in excess of $1 billion because of its monopolist business practices on the European market. On September 17, the 13-judge Grand Chamber of the Court of First Instance in Luxembourg is scheduled to rule over the March 2004 European antitrust case. Microsoft faces two separate fines over the pond. The first one is dating back to three years ago and it amounts to no less than $685.4 millio ... [read more >>] | | 11 September 2007, 07:24GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| South Korea Vs. Intel |  | After a summer filled with various monopole accusations in both the United States and Europe, the largest central processing units in the world are now in the crosshair of the antitrust regulator officials from South Korea. The Korean Fair Trade Commission, which is responsible for enforcing antitrust policies in South Korea, just announced that it has completed a two year probe on Intel, which started in June 2005 after some med ... [read more >>] | | 11 September 2007, 06:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Makes $50 Billion, Drops Just 1% on Legal Payouts |  | In the 2007 fiscal year, Microsoft accounted for a total revenue of $51.12 billion, no less than 15% more than the previous year. And while the Redmond company indicated that its main cash cows, Windows Vista and the 2007 Office System, are the main catalysts of the revenue growth, a reduction in the legal payouts has also contributed to the $5.1 billion. In the past fiscal year, Microsoft managed to take down its legal costs to no less th ... [read more >>] | | 13 August 2007, 05:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Intel and The E.U. Charges |  | On Friday, The European Commission served a Statement of Objection against Intel, accusing the biggest computer processor maker of illegal business practices against its smaller competitor AMD. Intel is practically being accused of forcing or making unregistered pays to different European system manufacturers and vendors to use and sell only computers based on its products and drop any present and future contracts with the competing compan ... [read more >>] | | 28 July 2007, 05:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Intel Gets Charged in Europe |  | The war between Intel and AMD is taking a new turn as the European Commission pressed formal charges against the chip maker Intel for using illegal tactics in an attempt to gain more market shares and consolidate is position as market leader. Ton Van Lierop, a spokesman for the European Commission – cited by the news site ZDNet – said "I can confirm the statement of objections has been sent", so the Commission acting as the [ADMA ... [read more >>] | | 27 July 2007, 05:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft +/- €800 Million in September |  | The next step in the Microsoft's European monopoly saga is expected to take place on September 17, 2007. The Redmond Company's long lasting confrontation with the European Union Antitrust Commission will receive a verdict in mid September. The information has not as yet been officially confirmed by the Court of First Instance, but the possibility of the September 17 date is supported as a dead-line by the imminent retirement[ADMA ... [read more >>] | | 07 June 2007, 07:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Is a Good European Lapdog |  | Microsoft is tame enough on the European market to be considered a good lapdog for the EU Antitrust Commission. The Redmond Company has found Europe to be a cruel mistress and a happily ever after marriage doesn't seem to be anywhere near in the proximity. Case in point, the same old March 2004 Commission ruling that Microsoft fails to comply to, even to this date.
At the beginning of May, the EU Commission released a Sta ... [read more >>] | | 24 April 2007, 02:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
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