Another antitrust peril for Microsoft, an ongoing one in Europe (over Web browsers), and continued violations against Firefox

THE MICROSOFT EMPIRE has managed to avoid a repeat of antitrust actions in the US and Europe.

Microsoft dumps what it claims to be a $300 million investment on Russia amid antitrust pains and massive migrations to GNU/Linux

Russia's state anti-monopoly service launched a probe of Microsoft Corp over cutbacks in supplies of the Windows XP operating system in Russia, it said on Thursday.

Microsoft's uncompromisable bundling of Windows leads to antitrust probe in Russia

In the next seven days, both Microsoft's European Union and United States antitrust cases will reach critical junctures. A routine U.S. hearing tomorrow will likely be anything but routine. Elsewhere, an appeals court will issue a ruling on the validity of Microsoft's adverse antitrust case in Europe.

Microsoft's mischiefs in Italian universities and a few more stories from Europe (Holland & Portugal)

With just weeks to go before South Korea's presidential election at the end of last year, Seoul's newspapers were full of stories about historic North-South cooperation.

I've written before about the curious case of South Korea, where the use of Internet Explorer and ActiveX is almost mandatory. I rather despaired of anything changing this situation, since there didn't seem to be any way to get around it from outside. And yet, remarkably, change is coming...