January 20, 2009

Microsoft accused of monopoly in Europe

It seems like an age ago when Microsoft were first accused of having an monopoly when it comes to their browser Internet Explorer, for most people this was cleared up a long time ago by the authorities and by Microsoft themselves.

However it would seem that in Europe this is not so and the European Union are about to bring this up once more by informing Microsoft that they may have to detach the web browser from all of their Windows operating systems, because this is an unfair monopoly.

The EU still believe that by including IE within the Windows operating system gives the company an unfair advantage over other providers of web browsers, Windows currently hold around ninety per cent of the world market in operating systems.

Source [Network World]