
By Nancy Gohring
pcworld.com
Microsoft and Google are stepping up their war of words. This time it's
Microsoft's turn: It says Google is pointing fingers rather than
addressing the European Commission's investigation into the search
giant.
Earlier this week, the European Commission acknowledged that it
had begun looking into three antitrust complaints filed against Google.
In response, Google has defended its search policies but has also blamed Microsoft for triggering the investigation,
because Microsoft owns one of the companies that complained and is
linked to another.
"Google is telling reporters that antitrust concerns about search
are not real because some of the complaints come from one of its last
remaining search competitors," Dave Heiner, vice president... Read more »