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Microsoft and Adobe has pushing the European Union to impose tougher fines on software counterfeiters and users of pirated software. According to Business Week, Microsoft and Adobe are part of a group of companies which lost...

Convicted monopolist Microsoft has appealed against a $1.3 billion antitrust fine imposed by the European Commission calling it 'excessive'. The fine dates back to 2008 when the software giant was accused of failing to supply...

The UK’s Met Office has hit back against allegations that its computer modelling techniques have resulted in the 'unnecessary' grounding of flights across Europe. The flight ban, which is costing airlines worldwide an...

The European Commission has dropped its competition law case against Microsoft over its browser software and accepted the company's solution of offering Microsoft Windows users a screen through which they can choose non-Microsoft...

Microsoft could for the first time ever rescind its divine rights on its operating system, Windows 7, and allow competing browsers to be bundled by default, in the OEM and retail versions in Europe only. The European Commission...

The European Commission set some restrictions on Microsoft's propensity to bundle its Internet Explorer browser with its Operating system. This means that IE8 won't be able to included in the next version of Windows 7 Europe,...

Software giant Microsoft has caved in to demands of European Union regulators who wanted the company to sever the Internet Explorer browser from Windows, Microsoft's Operating system. The Europeans have managed to achieve what...

Microsoft on Tuesday announced that it will discard withholding of internet search related information in Europe in the coming six months, but only after its competitors, notably Google and Yahoo, agree to the principle of...

A landmark court ruling which last year backed the European Commission's last competition action against Microsoft may not be as helpful in its current action as has been widely thought, according to a competition lawyer.The...

The complaint follows the European Court of First Instance's backing in September of earlier European Commission antitrust penalties against the software giant.Opera Software's complaint claims that Microsoft is acting unfairly...

Four small technology companies will challenge recent guidance from the UK Intellectual Property Office (UK-IPO) in the High Court next week. It states that few claims to computer programs for carrying out patentable methods are...

Today's decision by an EU court to uphold a landmark antitrust ruling against Microsoft is likely to influence other cases in the software industry. A competition lawyer said he expects the principles of the case to be...

The decision is seen as a key victory for the European competition regulator, and a serious blow for the US software giant, in the long-running competition dispute.The European Court of First Instance rejected Microsoft's appeal...

Europe's second highest court could deliver its verdict on the long-running Microsoft antitrust case on the day before the retirement of the presiding judge. The verdict is expected on 17th September, according to news agency...

EMI and Apple have agreed to sell the record label's entire non-Beatles back catalogue without digital rights management restrictions, but the music industry faces increased pressure to change the way it sells digital music.On...