Windows 7 raises complaints from rivals: Financial Times

11 May, 2009

Microsoft Corp's next version of Windows is stirring fresh complaints of anti-competitive behaviour from rivals who say the new version of the operating system gives unfair advantage to Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, the Financial Times reported on May 7.
"Our initial review suggests this is a blatant use of the Windows operating system to change the market dynamics of browser usage," Mitchell Baker, chairperson of Mozilla, developer of open-source Firefox browser, told the paper. Opera, the Norwegian browser company, echoed Mozilla's complaints about Windows 7, the paper said.

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