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Microsoft Faces New Suit on Competition

Small Norwegian company says industry giant stifles rivals

By Caroline Zimmerman, Newser User

Posted Dec 13, 2007 4:43 PM CST

(Newser) – An independent Norwegian software company is taking on Microsoft in an antitrust complaint filed today with the European Commission. Opera charges the industry behemoth with monopolizing the market by packaging Windows with the Internet Explorer browser, Reuters reports. The moves comes three months after Microsoft... Read full story »

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