The article reports on the impact of Microsoft Corp.'s antitrust contest with the European Union on information technology systems worldwide. Microsoft is appealing the March 2004 antitrust judgment passed by the European Commission. Microsoft has recently gone on the offensive against the Commission...
Last month, the European Commission announced that it had opened a formal investigation regarding Microsoft’s bundling of Microsoft Teams with Microsoft 365 and Office 365 suites for business customers. Today we are announcing proactive changes that we
The European Commission has agreed to Microsoft’s plans today, which would give Microsoft the power to shape this market for the next decade. The outcome could change if they win the appeal against the decision in the UK competition tribunal. But if Microsoft fails in the UK, it’s still ...
In this paper we discuss some of the most important economic issues raised in European Commission vs. Microsoft (2004) concerning the market for work group servers. In our view, the most important economic issues relate to (a) foreclosure incentives and (b) innovation effects of the proposed ...
‘dominant productivity suites’ and had forced customers to install Teams as part of the Microsoft Office 365 bundle. The European Commission (EC) found that Microsoft has been tying Teams with its cloud-based productivity suites for business customers, or software as a service (‘SaaS’),...
Slack Technologies announced Wednesday it has filed a competition complaint against Microsoft with the European Commission for anti-competitive practices. It claims Microsoft abused its market share dominance to snuff-out the competition in breach of European Union competition law by illegally tying its ...
Spurring ICT Use by Smaller Companies SMEs represent 99 per cent of the businesses in Europe, about 22 million currently, with a steady growth rate of just below 5 per cent annually, according to the European Commission. In an increasingly competitive global market, SMEs are under increa...
On December 16, theEuropean Commission announced it had agreed to Microsoft's concessions in the Opera vs. Microsoft case. By agreeing to offer Windows users a ballot screen of browser choices, the Softies were able to avoid fines or other EC-imposed remedies. The outcome: European PC users...
EMIC is unique to Microsoft in its focus on applied research and its contribution to European Commission and other public-sector research programmes. The mission of EMIC is to take part in open and collaborative R&D programmes with academia and industry partners, and to transfer the results to ...
As ZDNet writes, Nextcloud and about 30 other companies have complained to the European Commission about Microsoft’s practices. The Redmond-based company is said to violate competition law by delivering services such as OneDrive and Teams in a bundle with Windows 10 and 11, integrating them deep...