Microsoft Vows to Investigate Potential Anti-Trust Concerns Surrounding Google’s New Chrome Program
Google may face charges of anti-competitive behavior over its new internet browser, Chrome. Microsoft has vowed to carefully analyze and monitor the way in which Chrome and Google’s other popular services, especially online search, inter-relate.
Microsoft, still reeling from anti-trust challenges of its own, wants to ensure that Google’s software and online services are not set up to prefer Google’s other services over those from other vendors. Microsoft faced stiff penalties for tying its Windows platform with its own software in a way that stifled competition from other software and online service vendors, and wants to ensure that Google also complies with the spirit of the regulation.
Google faces additional anti-trust concerns as it charges ahead with an ad-sharing agreement with internet powerhouse Yahoo. Yahoo is expected to incorporate Google’s advertising in its search results beginning in October. However, combining the two will create an alliance that accounts for some 80 percent of search-based advertising in the United States. Anti-trust regulators are still reviewing the plan. Yahoo recently rejected a take-over bid from Microsoft valued at $47.5 billion.
Google and Microsoft are chief rivals in software, search, advertisement, and browser markets. Google dominates the online search and advertisement markets at about the same level that Microsoft dominates the browser market. Chrome is the latest in a line of free online software programs Google is offering to consumers, alongside programs that manage word processing, spreadsheets, presentations and more.
Chrome is available for free download on the internet. It is based on open source code, which means it is free and and available for anyone to analyze or improve – including competitors. Analysts believe that Chrome is more adept at handling complex applications and is less likely to crash than other browsers. It offered tabs browsing where each tab runs completely independently of the others. If one tab crashes, the others are unaffected.
Microsoft has just launched new features for Internet Explorer 8 as part of its campaign to maintain market dominance. The company claims that Internet Explorer, which is used by 60% of consumers who browse the web, is a more secure application than Chrome. The second most popular browser is presently Firefox, developed and run by the non-profit Mozilla Foundation, which has a cooperative agreement with Google. Chrome has recently displaced Apple’s Opera as the third-most popular internet browser.
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has been losing ground to other browsers since the enforcement of competition regulations in regions around the world. Microsoft previously packaged Internet Explorer with sale of its popular Windows platform, but market regulators demanded a greater degree of separation between the software program and operating system. In addition, Microsoft has paid hefty fees and been required to add a substantial amount of information to rivals about how to ensure their software programs function when run in Windows.
About the author: Jason Hardy is an avid writer on legal issues, including international writing about many subjects including european antitrust lawsuits. Eu competition law interests Jason particularly. He resides in Seattle, Washington.
Microsoft, still reeling from anti-trust challenges of its own, wants to ensure that Google’s software and online services are not set up to prefer Google’s other services over those from other vendors. Microsoft faced stiff penalties for tying its Windows platform with its own software in a way that stifled competition from other software and online service vendors, and wants to ensure that Google also complies with the spirit of the regulation.
Google faces additional anti-trust concerns as it charges ahead with an ad-sharing agreement with internet powerhouse Yahoo. Yahoo is expected to incorporate Google’s advertising in its search results beginning in October. However, combining the two will create an alliance that accounts for some 80 percent of search-based advertising in the United States. Anti-trust regulators are still reviewing the plan. Yahoo recently rejected a take-over bid from Microsoft valued at $47.5 billion.
Google and Microsoft are chief rivals in software, search, advertisement, and browser markets. Google dominates the online search and advertisement markets at about the same level that Microsoft dominates the browser market. Chrome is the latest in a line of free online software programs Google is offering to consumers, alongside programs that manage word processing, spreadsheets, presentations and more.
Chrome is available for free download on the internet. It is based on open source code, which means it is free and and available for anyone to analyze or improve – including competitors. Analysts believe that Chrome is more adept at handling complex applications and is less likely to crash than other browsers. It offered tabs browsing where each tab runs completely independently of the others. If one tab crashes, the others are unaffected.
Microsoft has just launched new features for Internet Explorer 8 as part of its campaign to maintain market dominance. The company claims that Internet Explorer, which is used by 60% of consumers who browse the web, is a more secure application than Chrome. The second most popular browser is presently Firefox, developed and run by the non-profit Mozilla Foundation, which has a cooperative agreement with Google. Chrome has recently displaced Apple’s Opera as the third-most popular internet browser.
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has been losing ground to other browsers since the enforcement of competition regulations in regions around the world. Microsoft previously packaged Internet Explorer with sale of its popular Windows platform, but market regulators demanded a greater degree of separation between the software program and operating system. In addition, Microsoft has paid hefty fees and been required to add a substantial amount of information to rivals about how to ensure their software programs function when run in Windows.
About the author: Jason Hardy is an avid writer on legal issues, including international writing about many subjects including european antitrust lawsuits. Eu competition law interests Jason particularly. He resides in Seattle, Washington.
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