Microsoft Not Happy With Apple App Store Bullying
90s in reverse? Gone are the days when Microsoft used to be active in the mobile space with its very own app store to house applications for the Windows …
Tag: EU
Microsoft Revises Privacy Rules For Cloud Contracts
Chalk it up as a big win for privacy. And transparency. And thank the EU, along the way. For Microsoft has just updated its privacy rules for cloud contracts …
Snowflake Comes To Microsoft Azure In Europe
Snowflake Computing has brought its data warehousing solution to Microsoft Azure in Europe, delivering its services to a much wider and global customer base. In fact, as the company …
Microsoft To Retire Old Skype Windows 10 Versions
End of the line, shorty! Microsoft is all set to retire Old Skype for Windows 10 versions and has asked users to upgrade or lose their Skype conversations. The …
Microsoft Might Be Forced To Rename Skype In Europe
The European odyssey continues for Microsoft, and the market is slowly becoming a bit of a hostile environment for the company, at least when it comes to legal issues. …
European Commission Working Towards A Single Digital Market
The fine folks over at the European Commission have agreed to work on a new legislation that may potentially have some big consequences for the digital markets. Digital markets …
Right To Be Forgotten Option Coming Soon To Bing
spokesperson said in a short statement to TechCrunch: “We’re continuing to work out the details on how we plan to implement the recent ruling by the European Court of …
The European Union Fires Off Windows XP Retirement Warning
advisory (PDF link) that has just been published: “This doesn’t mean that computers running Windows XP will stop working. It means that there will be no more security updates, …
EU Regulator Hopes That Nokia Will Not Become A Patent Troll
The EU antitrust commission recently gave their okay for Microsoft to acquire Nokia’s hardware and services business, meaning Redmond can now complete the transaction early next year. But Nokia …
The EU Commission Approves Microsoft’s Nokia Takeover
Not that many expected any major hurdles, or any hurdles for that matter, but Redmond can now go on with its plan to purchase Nokia’s smartphone business. The European …
EU Will Soon Okay The Microsoft Nokia Deal, Says Reuters
Redmond, it seems, will soon get the go-ahead for the Nokia deal from the antitrust body in the European Union. Which means that the deal could be on track …
Microsoft Now Waiting For Go Ahead From EU Regulators On Nokia Deal
Earlier this year, Microsoft made official a deal to take over the mobile phone business of Nokia, and now the company has officially asked the European Commission to give …
EU Privacy Regulators Ask Microsoft To Adjust Outlook.com And Bing
I guess this is what you get when you claim to be a company that really cares about the privacy of its users. Microsoft has just been asked by …
Microsoft Leads EU Complain About Android Monopoly Bundling
My, how times change! A decade or two back the words Microsoft and monopoly in the same sentence used to mean only one thing. But it is remarkable how …
Antitrust Expert Terms Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Fine Extraordinary
Can’t argue with a word like extraordinary! Microsoft may already have acknowledged its mistake and agreed to pay the massive penalty levied on it by the European Union, but …
Week In Review (Mar 4 – Mar 8)
Call it a surprise or call it a shock, but this week the Surface Pro was barely in the highlight. Microsoft is probably hard at work bringing the tablet …
Google And Opera Reportedly Behind Microsoft’s EU Fine
Well, well, well. Who would have thought Google, of all the technology companies in the world, would be such a tattletale — particularly with a corporate motto like Do …
EU fines Microsoft $732 million for browser ballot violation
Today, the European Union has decided to fine the company €561 million (around $732 million) for breaking a 2009 antitrust agreement. Back then, Microsoft agreed to include a browser …
Google Settles FTC Antitrust Probe Today: Microsoft Launches Broadside
As most readers are aware, Google and Microsoft have had a running confrontation for the past couple of years. However, Microsoft has fought this particular battle with Google from …
The EU Decides Not to Go After Windows RT for its Browser Restrictions
gearing up to go after Microsoft for not implementing the “browser choice screen” in Windows 7. While Microsoft had complied to the policy with Windows XP and VISTA, they …
Browser ballot screen comes to Windows 8
Microsoft Lodges Formal Compaint Against Motorola With The EU
Impressive – Office 365 is compliant with both EU and U.S. Standards for Data Protection and Security
REDMOND, Wash. — Dec. 14, 2011 — Microsoft Corp. today announced that Microsoft Office 365, the company’s next-generation cloud productivity service, is the first and only major cloud-based platform …