David Lawsky
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/ 13 May 2008

UK agency says Microsoft hurts student interests

A British government agency has told the European Commission that Microsoft Office works poorly with rival software used in British schools. Programs must meet the same standards to work together but the British agency said Microsoft offers only its own ”open standard” rather than effective support for Open Document Format.

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/ 27 July 2007

EU says Intel tried to squeeze out AMD

The European Union’s top antitrust regulator has charged that Intel tried to use its huge market share to push smaller rival Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) out of the central processing unit business. The two companies make all the chips at the processing heart of the world’s personal computers and servers, but Intel has about 80% of the business.

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/ 13 April 2007

EU poised to make Ryanair sell Aer Lingus stock

The European Commission has laid the legal groundwork to force Ryanair to sell some or all of its one-quarter holding in Aer Lingus if the European Union turns down its takeover bid. People familiar with the statement of objections say it concludes that Ryanair would lock up the Irish air market if it acquired the partly state-owned peer.

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/ 10 July 2006

EU stance, fine prompt movement by Microsoft

The European Commission is due to fine Microsoft on Wednesday as part of a hard-line approach towards getting the software giant to comply with antitrust sanctions that appears to be bearing fruit. The extent of Microsoft’s new-found cooperation in the face of a penalty that is likely to reach hundreds of millions of euros is impressing even the Americans, until now highly critical of Brussels’ approach.