EU Goes After Microsoft (Yes, Again)

The European Commission today again took aim at Microsoft, launching its first new antitrust investigations since the 1990s. Two probes will expand the principles of the last EU court victory over Microsoft—which a court upheld 4 months ago—to Office, Microsoft’s email tools, and Internet Explorer, reports the Financial Times.

Complaints from Microsoft competitors, including an alliance of companies called ECIS, sparked the investigation. ECIS says Microsoft has failed to disclose information about Office necessary for rivals to make software products that can operate with it. The commission said it will examine whether “a range of products have been unlawfully tied to sales of Microsoft’s dominant operating system.” (More antitrust stories.)