More bad blood
Google
has signed up with European regulators in an attack on Microsoft dominance of
the Web browser market.
Another rival, Opera, prompted the European Commission
to open an investigation into whether Microsoft's bundling of its Web browser
with the Windows operating system had stifled competition and
innovation.
However Google is also trying to elbow its way into the browser
market with its Chrome offering. Apparently Google hopes to build a case as
to why Microsoft should be required to level the playing field for Chrome and
other competing browsers.
Sundar Pichai, a Google vice president said that
creating a remedy that helps solve one problem without creating other unintended
consequences isn't easy.
The Mozilla Foundation, which makes Firefox, already have offered to help the European Commission in a Microsoft smack
down.