Microsoft goes antitrust on Google in Europe
Well, this is becoming interesting; now Microsoft is suing Google for monopolistic practices with its Google + social network in Europe:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/28/us-microsoft-google-eu-idUSTRE81R12Z20120228
Which prompts me to an OT question: should we be on Google + :-)
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It is not clear to me what arguments MS has against Google + here. I mean, MS is not trying to develop a similar product - unless I missed something ?
Well, MS has strong ties with Facebook, through its search engine mostly. But G+ increasingly appears to be more than a social network, and rather different from Fecebook. And in any case, it's still Google taking customers and products away from MS.
It's happening in the now famous US jurisdiction of East Texas, but the plaintiff is a Luxembourg holding company owned by MSFT and Nokia:
http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2012/03/microsoft-and-nokia-sue-apple-for-patent-infringement-through-a-holding-company.html