Microsoft Labels Google A European Monopoly

David Goldman, a staff writer at CNNMoney reported March 31, 2011 that Microsoft is suing Google as a monopoly and has won a surprising ally, Samuel Miller, the prosecutor who led the federal government's first antitrust case against Microsoft more than a decade ago (Goldman). Miller stated "Having prosecuted the Microsoft case, its seems to me that Google, as a monopoly, is engaging in the same tactics to keep its dominant position as Microsoft was engaging in," Miller says. "Those are the same tactics that got Microsoft in trouble." In what Goldman refers to as “an ironic twist of fate,” Microsoft now "claims that rival Google is unfairly using its position as a monopoly in the search market to impede the software giant's ability to compete.” Microsoft filed a formal complaint with the European Commission on Thursday, March 31 (Goldman), citing Google’s abuse of YouTube, which uses their ownership of the website to disadvantage their competitors’ search results, as well as hoarding AdWords data as well as various exclusivity agreements that Google holds with websites in Europe, giving them a 90% market share (Goldman).


http://money.cnn.com/2011/03/31/technology/microsoft_google_antitrust_case/index.htm