[1st-mile-nm] Fwd: GigaLaw.com Daily News, February 16, 2009

[Marianne Granoff]

FYI.

>Microsoft Sued for Fees to Downgrade to Windows XP
>      Microsoft is under antitrust attack again, this time for the 
> fees PC vendors charge to consumers who buy PCs preinstalled with 
> Vista and then "downgrade" to Windows XP. "Microsoft has used its 
> market power to take advantage of consumer demand for the Windows 
> XP operating system by requiring consumers to purchase computers 
> preinstalled with the Vista operating system and to pay additional 
> sums to 'downgrade' to the Windows XP operating system," the suit alleges.
>      Read more: http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3803026