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Sunday, February 1, 2009

Windows 7 Gets Antitrust Scrutiny


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Advisers of defense of the regulators that control Microsoft Corp. ' s the 2002 fulfillment of an establishment of defense to verify " Windows 7, more thoroughly " that the previous versions of the operating system, according to a report published recently presented/displayed before the federal judge whom to watch over the company.

The group of three members of the specialists in the field of the computer science that works for the defense of the civil servants had provided a copy of Windows at least 7 of March, but in December of 2008, Microsoft has given the documentation to the Technical Committee.

In the report, presented/displayed the past Wednesday to the judge of district Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the United States, of defense of the civil servants with the Department of Justice, 17 of the conditions and the District of Columbia said that Microsoft has given the warning of which " the changes to the protocols of Windows 7" it requested new 30 and 87 reviewed technical documents.

Microsoft has been under the microscope, since an agreement in 2002 that requires the company to document the communication protocols so that they can put to other developers, including the competitors, software in the form in which it works without problems with the clients and assistants in Windows. The decree also established the technical committee and forced to Microsoft and of national defense and federal civil servant to carry out the normalization of the Kollar-Kotelly relations.

The most recent report explains the changes that the Committee " , it asked, TC" by the court, to verify that Windows 7, the successor of Vista. " In the light of new tests that must be examined, the TC is going away to move the direct fire to the revision of TC documents ' s of the technical assistants like the most effective method of identification with the registries públicos" , to read the report. " The modification will allow the strategy of technical cooperation to examine new Windows 7 and tries in opposite, who especially advisable is given to the importance of these new documents a" complete project. ; It has been the decree of signed consent Microsoft had to expire in November of 2007. Several conditions have argued, nevertheless, and after months of legal roundtrip, Kollar-Kotelly in January of 2008 has extended its functions of supervision of two years more, until the 12 of November of 2009.


Microsoft also faces the renovation of the control of the European Union, that presented/displayed accusations preliminary of two weeks ago against the company, accusante violation of the laws anti-trust from 1996, the packaging of the navigator of Internet Explorer (IE) with Windows.


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