Intel late last week denied charges of anticompetitive behaviour in Europe, hinting that rival AMD was responsible for its poor performance.
European Commissioner Charlie McCreevy is making a 'final effort' to push through the proposal for an EU-wide patent.
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.
The European Commission issued Microsoft a warning on Thursday that it could face a retroactive fine of up to US$2.37 million a day for failing to comply with its antitrust order, based on its preliminary review.
European regulators raided the offices of Intel and a number of PC-related companies early on Tuesday as part of an antitrust investigation into the chipmaker.
Analyst Gartner believes Microsoft is planning to delay its new operating system again for political rather than technical reasons.
To avoid EU regulatory fines of up to US$2.45 million per day, Microsoft offers to license some of its Windows source code to rivals.
An association of industry heavyweights has been given the all-clear to join in fighting Microsoft's attempt to reverse its European antitrust conviction.
Software patent campaigners have reacted with surprise to an apparent change in the European Commission's stance on those patents.
'Monstrous' royalties demanded under Microsoft's proposed server interoperability licence will discourage competition, says Samba's Jeremy Allison.
Addresses withing the new top-level domain for the European Union will be available from the end of this year
Microsoft is making a bid to change from the company the rest of us blame for security issues - and it is not at all abashed about it.
The European Commission is attempting to legalise software patents through the introduction of the EU Community Patent, according to an anti-patent campaigner.
Microsoft is on track to ship Windows Vista to businesses in November and to consumers in January, according to investment bank Goldman Sachs.
Academics claim to have cracked the code used by the GPS satellite, but the EC denies this is a defeat for 'security through obscurity'.
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