EU prepares new antitrust investigation against Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation, like some other corporations, is constantly under the gun, so to speak, of antitrust committees in different countries. In the European Union, an investigation was recently conducted against Microsoft, and upon completion, the company was forced to give the Microsoft OS user a choice of browsers. A special version of Windows was created in which the user could choose a suitable browser for himself. Due to the fact that there was no such choice before, Microsoft was fined 1.68 billion euros (although this happened in 2009).

But after some time, users of the new version of the OS from Microsoft began to complain that the browser selection screen was gone, and the same Microsoft Explorer was offered as the default browser. This summer, the European Union began preparations for a second investigation, and most likely, such an investigation will be carried out.

Representatives of the Redmond corporation claim that the lack of a browser selection screen is a software bug that crept into the latest updates, namely, Windows 7 Service Pack 1. According to the company itself, about 28 million computers of European users, with this update, lost the browser selection screen.

Now developers are preparing a new update, which will return the choice of browsers in place. However, according to bloomberg, The European Commission will still conduct a new antitrust investigation. So far, neither representatives of the European Commission, nor representatives of Microsoft have given official comments on this matter.

Via zdnet