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Vista attacked as illegal under EU rules by rivals

Vista attacked as illegal under EU rules by rivals

A coalition of rivals which includes includes IBM, Nokia, Sun Microsystems, Adobe, Corel, Oracle, RealNetworks, Red Hat, Linspire and Opera, charged on Friday that Microsoft's new Vista operating system will perpetuate practices found illegal in the European Union nearly three years ago.The European Commission found in 2004 that Microsoft used its dominance to muscle out RealNetworks and other makers of audio and video streaming software and that it made its desktop Windows deliberately incompatible with rivals' server software.

Microsoft's new Windows Vista operating system is due for formal release on Tuesday.


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