The Microsoft-Google feud comes to D.C.
Business • March 2011 • Views: 698
Microsoft may have filed its antitrust case against Google in Europe for the same reason Willie Sutton robbed banks: That’s where the money is.
The European Commission has a history of levying big fines against monopolists — and Brussels is widely seen as friendlier terrain than Washington for trust-busting — so it makes sense that Microsoft would take a shot at Google far from Redmond or Mountain View.
But the Microsoft-Google feud didn’t start in Europe, and it’s not going to end there.