An Upset Microsoft Sharpens Its Attack On Google
Bangalore: Microsoft, whose two year long efforts on urging antitrust regulators to crack down on arch rival Google seemed futile as the company emerged unscratched from antitrust probe, thanks to the search giant’s voluntary agreement and a consent decree on the company's use of patents, reports Los Angeles Times.
But the whole Google success did not go well with Microsoft and it has renewed its allegations that Google is crushing competitors and harming consumers by abusing its dominance in Internet search and growing dominance in online video and Smartphones.
The win for Google means, now the company will voluntarily change some of its business practices, including how it uses content from other websites and allows advertisers to export data. It will also settle allegations that it misused patents to confound Smartphone competitors.
"Hopefully, Google will wake up to a new year with a resolution to change its ways and start to conform with the antitrust laws," Dave Heiner, Microsoft’s deputy general counsel, wrote in a blog post Wednesday. "If not, then 2013 hopefully will be the year when antitrust enforcers display the resolve that Google continues to lack."
