Topic: Microsoft vs Google - EU antitrust complaint

[Nemesis]

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Posted by Brad Smith
Senior Vice President & General Counsel, Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft is filing a formal complaint with the European Commission as part of the Commission’s ongoing investigation into whether Google has violated European competition law.  We thought it important to be transparent and provide some information on what we’re doing and why.

At the outset, we should be among the first to compliment Google for its genuine innovations, of which there have been many over the past decade.  As the only viable search competitor to Google in the U.S. and much of Europe, we respect their engineering prowess and competitive drive.  Google has done much to advance its laudable mission to “organize the world’s information,” but we’re concerned by a broadening pattern of conduct aimed at stopping anyone else from creating a competitive alternative.

 

How different they sound when the shoe is on the other foot. 

[Brush Wolf]

Oh the irony.

[Lieutenant_Q]

I understand the Irony, but I also understand their point.  The antitrust suit against Microsoft was to promote "fairness".  If the EU doesn't do the same to Google, it means that the EU wasn't really interested in "fairness" at all, it was politically driven.  Just because Google kicks a portion of their profits to campaign donations, doesn't mean they get to be exempt from the law.

[Dash Jones]

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Posted by Brad Smith
Senior Vice President & General Counsel, Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft is filing a formal complaint with the European Commission as part of the Commission’s ongoing investigation into whether Google has violated European competition law.  We thought it important to be transparent and provide some information on what we’re doing and why.

At the outset, we should be among the first to compliment Google for its genuine innovations, of which there have been many over the past decade.  As the only viable search competitor to Google in the U.S. and much of Europe, we respect their engineering prowess and competitive drive.  Google has done much to advance its laudable mission to “organize the world’s information,” but we’re concerned by a broadening pattern of conduct aimed at stopping anyone else from creating a competitive alternative.

 

How different they sound when the shoe is on the other foot. 

MS owns YAHOO?

I thought Yahoo was the other big one out there competing with Google?