EU: Microsoft Exhibiting 'Abusive Behavior'

The European Commission seems to still feel Microsoft is acting in an anticompetitive manner as its competition chief Neelie Kroes told the EU parliament that the company was still gaining market share through what she called "abusive behavior." She pointed to the fact that the company's server products still continue to work far more smoothly with Microsoft products than those of competitors.

Since the EU began its investigation in 1999, Microsoft's share of workgroup servers has ballooned from 35 percent to about 75 percent of the market. While the Redmond company is making steps towards interoperability, the EC contends that Microsoft is charging too much for it.