Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Microsoft, which a few months ago launched its own
security suite Windows Live OneCare, contends that the inclusion of
Patchgard in Vista has been on the table for some time and the Symantec
complaint at the eleventh hour is unjustified. The Redmond software
company also claims that Vista is designed to give users a choice of
security vendor.
To date, Symantec has not been joined by other security vendors in lodging its complaints to the EC.
While the security issue is a sticky one for the EC, Adobe's complaint
about Microsoft's inclusion of its own free competing document creation
and reading software appears more clear cut.
Vista will include a built-in competitor to Adobe's Acrobat document
creation software, which produces documents in the defacto PDF
(Portable Document Format) standard. Adobe sells the Acrobat creation
software and makes the Acrobat reader a free download. An estimated 500
million Windows users have the Adobe Acrobat reader installed.
Vista, as it stands, will include Microsoft's own proprietary document
standard called XPS (XML Paper Specification). The intention of
Microsoft is to leverage its operating system monopoly to replace PDF
with XPS as the defacto standard by offering for free what Adobe now
charges for.
Microsoft itself knows that the documents creation play is a risky one
and has previously unsuccessfully sought advice from the EC over the
inclusion of the XPS system in Vista. What Microsoft is doing with XPS
is trying it on and seeing what it can get away with. If the EC is
consistent with previous rulings, it will force Microsoft to unbundle
the XPS feature.
Analyst group Gartner have reportedly predicted that the antitrust issues in the EC will delay the release of Vista until May 2007.
David Bass
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