China's National Development and Reform Commission will investigate Microsoft after it received a petition from a Chinese lawyer, according to local media reports.

Poland's Office of Competition and Consumer Protection has sent the results of its Microsoft abuse of dominance investigation to the European Commission, asking DG Comp to follow up on the possibility that the software leader has again violated competition laws.

Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission is investigating Microsoft over claims the company is abusing its dominant position in the country's computer software market.

Counsel for Google and Yahoo have presented their views on the internet search advertising deal between the companies to the US Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer rights and the House Committee Task Force on Competition Policy and Antitrust Laws.

China's State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) has denied reports it is investigating Microsoft, after several local and international media outlets claimed the US software company was being investigated for monopoly practices.

Microsoft will appeal against an €899 million fine imposed by the European Commission, after the company failed to comply with a 2004 decision requiring it to license interoperability information for a reasonable fee.

A member of the European Parliament has asked the European Commission whether US software manufacturer Microsoft should be precluded from bidding on public projects because of its sordid antitrust history.

Spring Meeting 2008. The audience heard deeply-divergent views on the prospects for dominant companies in Europe, following the Court of First Instance's ruling on 'Microsoft'.

Apple is reportedly discussing with major record labels the possibility of releasing iPods and iPhones with free access to the entire iTunes music library.

The US Supreme Court has denied software maker Microsoft's request for the high court to stop a competitor's lawsuit against the company.

The European Commission today fined US software company Microsoft €899 million for failing to comply with a March 2004 decision requiring it to license interoperability information for a reasonable fee.

The European Commission may fine Microsoft as much as €1.5 billion before the end of the week for non-compliance with an order from 2004, according to published reports.

The European Commission says it will wait and see whether Microsoft allows competitors to access the technology behind some of its most high-volume programs before changing the course of its abuse of dominance investigation.

In an apparent move to quash part of the continuing European Commission investigation into its alleged anti-competitive practices, Microsoft today pledged that it will open the technology behind several of its most high-volume products to competitors.

The European Commission is investigating whether Microsoft violated antitrust laws when campaigning for its Open XML software file format to be adopted as an international standard.