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  • Can Google learn 'trust' from Microsoft?

    The deputy general counsel for Microsoft says they have learned their lessons on dealing with the US government in antitrust matters. Now he has some advice for Google on the same subject.

  • 'To heck with Mario Monti'

    After getting nowhere with the European Union's competition commissioner last week, Microsoft chief executive officer Steve Ballmer offered a few humble comments and then headed home to await the worst.

  • Microsoft's antitrust concessions are 'pointless'

    A firm involved in the market testing of Microsoft's server interoperability licence on Wednesday criticised the royalty-free concessions the software giant made in its final offer to the European Union.

  • EU needs more than cookie control from Google

    Google's move to cut the lifespan of its cookie's to a rolling two years may not be enough to appease a European Union privacy group whose major concern is server log data use.

  • Microsoft's long-playing business record

    The antitrust investigation into Microsoft's activities lasted nearly half a decade, but by the time regulators finally came to a landmark conclusion, Microsoft had already established its position and the rival product was all but defunct.

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  • Is Windows still relevant?

    In the increasingly Google-YouTube-Web 2.0 age we inhabit, it's become fashionable to dismiss Windows as a relic.

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