By Will Sturgeon, 10 January 2002 12:10
NEWS Microsoft's legions of detractors and rivals are turning on the European Commission and demanding an anti-trust investigation into the Seattle behemoth's Windows XP operating system. Companies including industry heavyweights AOL Time Warner, IBM, Oracle and Sun are uniting in their attempts to break Microsoft's monopoly and are lobbying Brussels to add the launch of Windows XP to the list of anti-competitive acts levelled against Microsoft. According to a report in the Financial Times, it is thought unlikely that the European Commission will take Windows XP into consideration as doing so could only delay matters further.
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