Group accused IBM company consisting of Microsoft unfair competition

Tony compiler

On Wednesday, a group of Microsoft's rivals and customers complained to the European Union over alleged unfair competition from the software giant. European Commission on Interoperability (ECIS) said in a statement, Microsoft, a threat to businesses and individual consumers can not make their own choice".

ECIS was founded by IBM, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, NOKIA, and RealNetworks in 1989. The group also includes the Opera software company in Norway and Linux systems manufacturer Red Hat, Linspire and other companies. In a complaint, they called on the European Commission to end Microsoft's business practices that have surrounded the companies. The group's chairman Simon - (Simon Awde) said that in order to prevent the continued anti competitive behavior of Microsoft Corp, a strong antitrust enforcement measures seem to be the only means, which ECIS deeply regret.

The Group believes that, according to the 2004 EU antitrust restrictions on decision by Microsoft, must be fast and fully implemented; such as Microsoft Office software, Windows system will not allow products and competitors compatible, hindering competition. The group's lawyer Thomas (Thomas Vinje) - Wenjie said, this prevents competition products interoperability completely. The scope of the ECIS's complaints against the EU antitrust ruling 2004 different, ECIS is also planned to provide support to the EU, one of the two industry groups.