Comment Re:Remember M$'s role on SCO? (Score 1) 192
I think it's a little worse than you paint. Take this EU case. Microsoft is not a party to the case at all. They're not claiming harm from Google's alleged tying of its various products to its search engine - because they don't have shopping search products, or if they do, you can bet they're preferred on Bing. Google is certainly in competition with Bing itself, but that's a perfectly legal competition (except, perhaps, for the fact that Bing scrapes Google searches and reports the results as their own).
The point of the original article is that Microsoft wants to hurt Google any way they can - and helping Google's other competitors sue them is a sneaky way to do it. Just like SCO. Just like wielding bogus patents as a weapon while complaining about patents wielded against you. And a kind of unethical way for EU regulators to bolster their case. Kind of refutes your argument that Microsoft is doing anything other than competing. Bing is competing and failing - so they're trying to get the EU government to make Google less profitable, and so less able to compete. How about simply improving your search engine - and acting in ways that don't earn you a reputation that makes large numbers of people unwilling to even try it. Too late for that, probably...