{"id":494,"date":"2007-01-26T10:20:16","date_gmt":"2007-01-26T15:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sequence-inc.com\/fraudfiles\/2007\/01\/26\/microsoft-vista-accused-of-being-illegal-in-europe\/"},"modified":"2007-10-08T09:53:31","modified_gmt":"2007-10-08T14:53:31","slug":"microsoft-vista-accused-of-being-illegal-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/microsoft-vista-accused-of-being-illegal-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft &#8220;Vista&#8221; accused of being illegal in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s competitors in Europe alleged today that the new Vista operating system continues the illegal practices by Microsoft discovered in Europe 3 years ago.  The group complaining includes IBM, Nokia, Sun Microsystems, Adobe, Oracle, and Red Hat.<\/p>\n<p>In 2004, the European Commission determined that Microsoft purposely made Windows software incompatible with competitors&#8217; server software, as well as trying to get makers of audio and video streaming software out of the market.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft was set to release Vista on Tuesday, but the European Commission said Vista is aimed at increasing Microsoft&#8217;s dominance.  The company is pushing its XAML markup language so that it may replace HTML, the current standard for publishing on the Internet.  Microsoft is also using OOXML (open XML) on the Microsoft Office platform.  This dictates how a document is formatted and stored, and competitors are also claiming that Microsoft is using this to increase its monopoly.<\/p>\n<p>Security software makers have complained that Microsoft is denying them access to Vista, which they need to help create their products to protect computers from malicious viruses and software.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s competitors in Europe alleged today that the new Vista operating system continues the illegal practices by Microsoft discovered in Europe 3 years ago. The group complaining includes IBM, Nokia, Sun Microsystems, Adobe, Oracle, and Red Hat. In 2004, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fraud-news-stories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Z0e-7Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}