EU May Probe Microsoft for Tablet Software, Almunia Says

Lock
This article is for subscribers only.

European antitrust regulators may open a new investigation into whether Microsoft Corp. can avoid giving a choice of browsers in a new version of its Windows operating system for tablet computers, the bloc’s competition chief said.

“We will need to look at this,” Joaquin Almunia, the European Union’s competition commissioner, told Bloomberg News following a speech at an antitrust conference in New York today.