Recent concessions by Microsoft, including its offer to give European computer users a choice of Web browsers, appear to address European Union antitrust concerns, and cases against the company could be settled this year, the bloc’s competition commissioner said Wednesday, The New York Times’s James Kanter reported.
At a briefing in Brussels, the commissioner, Neelie Kroes, said that she had “good grounds for thinking we are moving towards a very satisfactory resolution” of the case concerning the way Microsoft bundles its Internet Explorer Web browser with its Windows operating system.
As for a second issue — the way other software brands communicate with Microsoft products — she appeared equally positive about reaching an agreement.
Brad Smith, Microsoft’s chief lawyer, said in a statement, “Today’s decision is a significant step toward closing a decade-long chapter of competition law concerns in Europe.”
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