Microsoft hits out at EU for Vista delay - update : Vista to launch on time in Europe

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SOFTWARE GIANT Microsoft said that investigations made by European Union regulators could force it to delay its future Vista OS.

You could be forgiven for thinking that another delay to Vista will make no difference to anyone except the gaggle of hardware vendors hoping to make big bucks on its release.

A representative from Vole told the Wall Street Journal that it had asked the EU anti-monopoly commissioners to ease concerns that Vista might have monopolistic tendencies.

But, in reply, a EU rep said Microsoft was muddying the waters by accusing it of delaying Vista. Instead, it had given the Vole a shopping list of things that it might be interested in back in early July. Microsoft wanted more time to answer and has now done so.

Plus antitrust boss Neelie Kroes had chatted to the demure CEO Steve Ballmer by telephone. Presumably if she had any earwax clogging her aural passages, that has now miraculously disappeared.




News source: THEINQUIRER

Night_virus

Thanks for information,


(nice to see source)

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X-Caliber

Please stop this before i loose my patient
Use a thnx button instead.....Just dont blankly increase ur POST counts


Wow another delay.....
I think they shuld just keep on relaesing the RC packs..n tht to public.....LOL

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Christo

That will be nice. Then i will format my linux drive to ntfs..

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bakuryu

Microsoft said Thursday it was on track to launch its Windows Vista operating system in Europe in January but again asked the European Commission to detail concerns it may have with the system.

"The release of Vista, as far as we are concerned, remains on track. However, we have received no clarity as of yet from the Commission over their concerns," said a Microsoft spokesman at the release of a study it commissioned on the potential economic gains from Vista.

"To say nothing creates an uncertain environment. We urge the Commission sooner rather than later to come forward with their concerns," the spokesman said.

The European Union's executive Commission, which has been involved in a long antitrust battle with the U.S. software company, this week warned Microsoft against foreclosing competition in computer security by tying new security features into Vista.

http://www.activewin.com/awin/commen...ineIndex=36474

So I guess at least now EU won't delay Vista's launch in Europe.

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