Microsoft Targeted For Antitrust Over Internet Explorer, Again

As German news outlet Spiegel Online reports, Microsoft is under investigation by the European Commission over alleged antitrust violations pertaining to a 2011 update to Windows 7, which the EU says violated Microsoft’s 2009 agreement to allow Windows users to be able to easily switch browsers away from Microsoft’s default Internet Explorer. The Microsoft was probed over antitrust violations pertaining to its bundling of Internet Explorer back in 1998 by the U.S. Justice Department and in 2009 by the European Commission. Microsoft reached settlements in both cases.