The European Commission said today that the process remains open to antitrust against
Microsoft will not make European users
pay higher prices than the rest of the world by the new version of its operating system, Windows 7, scheduled for launch in autumn .
Microsoft has announced that Windows 7 will sell in Europe without any Internet browser to get rid of a new fine and Brussels.
"Microsoft has already given assurances that no
European users will suffer price increases for Windows 7, now or in the future," said the spokesman of the Community executive, Johannes Laitenberger.
The spokesman was responding to a release issued Friday by the Rotary British 'Financial Times', which ensures that the Europeans will end up paying more for Windows 7 by the confrontation between the Commission and paid by Microsoft Explorer browser. The newspaper says that users of Vista in Europe need a new version of 'software' to be deleted Explorer, which will increase the price of 119.99 euros to 199.99.
The EU executive said that his antitrust investigation against Microsoft by selling the Windows Explorer is tied to "ensure that consumers can choose among multiple browsers."
To this end, the Commission would prefer that the software giant to include in Windows 7 in addition to several search engines Explorer, instead of eliminating them all. "Instead of giving more options to choose from, Microsoft has decided to give less," the spokesman regretted.
In any case, has stated that if the Executive Community concluded after its investigation, which has no term that Microsoft has abused its dominant position, the "corrective measures" to be imposed shall be required to include a U.S. company more browsers on your new operating system.