Involvement Against Microsoft Dominance
Over the past years, ECIS has been actively involved in the European Commission’s anti-trust condemnation against Microsoft, now upheld by the European Court of First Instance in September 2007.
Ziff-Davis' eWeek comments that
| “ | ECIS (European Committee for Interoperable Systems) again charged that Windows Vista would stifle innovation and competition. The group, founded in 1989, represents a Who's Who list of Microsoft competitors, including Adobe, Corel, IBM, Linspire, Nokia, Opera, Oracle, RealNetworks, Red Hat and Sun. Many of these same companies are Microsoft partners, too. | ” |
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Other complaints about Microsoft include:
- That bundling XAML in Vista is an attempt to replace HTML by a Microsoft-specific technology
- That Office Open XML is a Microsoft-dependent document format
Read more about this topic: European Committee For Interoperable Systems
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