The Register has an interesting article on Google's antitrust complaints against Microsoft in the US, stating:

The US Justice Department has urged state authorities to reject Google's anti-trust claim against Microsoft. Google complained to regulators that Microsoft's Vista operating system discouraged use of Google search.

I hope Google used a better choice of words with the DOJ than this. Any self-respecting firm would not show itself as so weak and worried about competition that it feels itself harmd because another firm discouraged use of its product.

In other news, Cnet reports that a European Union court will deliver a decision on Microsoft in mid-September to clarify whether the European Commission can pursue its current case with the firm. Apparently, the Commission has put on hold the issuance of new antitrust guidelines for Aritlce 82 of the European Union Treaty. If the Commission has until September to make sense of Article 82, it can at least create a special section to help Nellie Kroes.

Note that the Cnet article describes Microsoft's purportedly anti-competitive actions in Europe as making life difficult and [forestalling] competition for/with competitors. If the European Commission does not already believe the Cnet article trivializes its case against Microsoft, it should.