"First I want to really see if Microsoft is intent on pursuing this path. Mozilla isn't considering legal action at this time, and Anderson said going to court would be "a solution of last resort." But it's an option if nothing changes. attorney general Janet Reno said upon suing Microsoft.Īlthough Microsoft didn't prevail in those cases, its, uh, competitive spirit appears to be unquenched. "Microsoft used its monopoly power to develop a chokehold on the browser software needed to access the Internet," then-U.S. case is closer to today's situation: the accusation that Microsoft abused its monopoly power in Windows to crush browser pioneer Netscape. Microsoft's position raises the prospect not only of refighting the browser wars of more than a decade ago, but also of reviving the grindingly slow antitrust litigation from the U.S. Microsoft declined to comment for this story. Anderson also detailed concerns in a blog post. "Making IE the only browser on that platform is a complete return to the digital dark ages when there was only one browser on the Windows platform."Īnderson has been discussing the matter with his counterparts at Microsoft, but the company hasn't budged, he said. "They're trying to make a new version of their operating system which denies their users choice, competition, and innovation," said Harvey Anderson, Mozilla's general counsel. Today, Mozilla's top lawyer warned that Microsoft's behavior threatens a repeat of history, because it's telling Mozilla that it's barring Firefox from forthcoming Windows 8 machines that use ARM processors. That, of course, is what happened during the first browser war of the 1990s and beyond, on personal computers. The browser market, deprived of competition, stagnates. Stop me if you've heard this one before: Microsoft muscles aside other browsers and cements the dominance of Internet Explorer.
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