I know, you read it probably last Friday, but here is once again the next chapter in the neverending story EU/ECIS (=IBM, Nokia, Sun Microsystems, Adobe, Oracle and Red Hat) vs Microsoft: [image: Gates promoting Vista in Brussels]
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“The very same practices the European Commission found to be illegal almost three years ago have now been implemented in Vista, Microsoft‘s new PC operating system. This will stifle competition on the PC and server markets, and extend its closed standards into the open standards based internet environment, the European Committee for Interoperable Systems (ECIS) warned today in a statement.
Microsoft still has not fulfilled its interoperability disclosure obligations under the European Commission‘s March 2004 Decision, which applies not only to existing but also to forthcoming Microsoft products, such as Vista, Office 2007 and Longhorn.”
If you really feel up to it, you can read the complete press release. And if you couldn’t care less, enjoy the marketing hype when MSFT releases Vista in the shops Jan 30.
Or just buy the “law-breaking” OS as an upgrade, and find out for yourself what is does to your 2 yo XP laptop 
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