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Microsoft To Open Up, Ease Restrictions on Vista, Future Windows
Friday, July 21st, 2006
Microsoft has promised to ease rules and release more technical information to make it easier for 
OEMs, developers and end users to configure, install and run non-Windows software on its forthcoming Vista upgrade. At a speech in Washington, D.C, Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith announced 12 new tenets that will guide the future development of Window, beginning with Vista, which is due to launch broadly in early 2007.
The announcement comes less than a week after the European Commission fined Microsoft $357 million — and threatened more fines — for reportedly not complying with its March 2004 antitrust settlement.
The European Commission claimed that Microsoft has not made its communications protocols licensing process as transparent as required by that settlement, a charge that U.S. Justice Department regulators also leveled at Microsoft in the past in the aftermath of its U.S. antitrust settlement. InformationWeek | Microsoft Windows | Microsoft To Open Up, Ease Restrictions on Vista, Future Windows | July 19, 2006
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