Microsoft hits out at EU for Vista delay

SOFTWARE GIANT Microsoft said that investigations made by European Union regulators could force it to delay its future Vista OS.

You could be forgiven for thinking that another delay to Vista will make no difference to anyone except the gaggle of hardware vendors hoping to make big bucks on its release.

A representative from Vole told the Wall Street Journal that it had asked the EU anti-monopoly commissioners to ease concerns that Vista might have monopolistic tendencies.

But, in reply, a EU rep said Microsoft was muddying the waters by accusing it of delaying Vista. Instead, it had given the Vole a shopping list of things that it might be interested in back in early July. Microsoft wanted more time to answer and has now done so.

Plus antitrust boss Neelie Kroes had chatted to the demure CEO Steve Ballmer by telephone. Presumably if she had any earwax clogging her aural passages, that has now miraculously disappeared. µ

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