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[News] [Rival] Has Bloomberg Just Pulled Anti-Microsoft Story?

[Suddently it's gone]

Microsoft May Be Forced to Alter Vista

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| Antitrust officials may demand that Microsoft Corp. change its
| Windows Vista operating system to address a complaint by Google 
| that the program's design hurts competing software. Vista makes 
| it impractical to turn off Microsoft's self-serving search index.
| Government officials are studying whether Microsoft violated the 
| 2001 consent decree.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a8e1Cx3pctio&refer=home

See links below. The CNN pulled a story as well. But *WHY*?


Related:

ECIS Accuses Microsoft of Plotting HTML Hijack

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| An industry coalition that has represented competitors of Microsoft
| in European markets before the European Commission stepped up its
| public relations offensive this morning, this time accusing
| Microsoft of scheming to upset HTML's place in the fabric of
| the Internet with XAML, an XML-based layout lexicon forn
| etwork applications.
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http://www.betanews.com/article/ECIS_Accuses_Microsoft_of_Plotting_HTML_Hijack/1169824569


Software rivals say Microsoft's Vista illegal in Europe (at CNNMoney.com)

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| Software manufacturers, citing 2004 European Commission finding,
| contend the operating system violates server laws in Europe.
|
| [...]
|
| "Vista is the first step of Microsoft's strategy to extend its market 
| dominance to the Internet," the ECIS statement said.
|
| It said Microsoft's XAML markup language was "positioned to replace HTML," 
| the industry standard for publishing documents on the Internet.
| 
| Microsoft's own language would be dependent on Windows, and discriminatory 
| against rival systems such as Linux, the group says.
|
| They said a so-called "open XML" platform file format, known as OOXML, is 
| designed to run seamlessly only on the Microsoft Office platform.
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http://money.cnn.com/2007/01/26/news/international/bc.vista.microsoft.eu.reut/index.htm?source=yahoo_quote

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