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EU’s charges against Microsoft over IE just silly, says expert
Closed Published February 12th, 2009 in Browser Security, Internet Explorer, Security
The European Union’s pursuit of Microsoft Corp. over new charges that Internet Explorer (IE) stifles browser competition is "silly" and "dumb," a noted antitrust expert said today.
"I just don’t see what it adds to the final judgment in the U.S. case," said William Page, the co-author of The Microsoft Case: Antitrust, High Technology, and Consumer Welfare (University of Chicago Press, 2009) and a member of the faculty of the Levin College of Law at the University of Florida. "OEMs are already free to delete most of the visible evidence of [Internet Explorer] and to install another browser if they want." EU’s charges against Microsoft over IE ‘just silly,’ says expert
