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The software group Microsoft gets for its new operating system Windows Vista in the criticism. With the Microsoft system impedes competition again, complains an association of large competitors.
Brussels-Microsoft Vista pursue the strategy of its dominant position also on the Internet, accuses the European Committee for Interoperable Systems (ECIS). The group includes major corporations such as IBM, Nokia, Sun Microsystems, Oracle, Adobe, RealNetworks and Red Hat.
Windows Vista is for private customers in the first time next week. REUTERS
Windows Vista: The competition demands that Microsoft operating system for its programs from other providers opens Among the measures the EU Commission earlier had initiated against Microsoft, did not deter the group, it was pointed. "Microsoft has clearly chosen to lay the foundations of the Commission's decision in 2004 to ignore," said ECIS chairman Simon Awde. The EU Commission had then Microsoft, inter alia, to a record fine of nearly 500 million euros and the group condemns invited to be operating system for other software programs service providers.
Microsoft has appealed the judgement. One of the most recent allegations of Microsoft competitors initially gave neither the group nor the Commission a comment. Windows Vista be for longer delays on Tuesday for private customers in the market. Specificallycriticized the Alliance of Microsoft's competitors using Microsoft's own standards for the publication of documents on the Internet. This language was designed so that the industry-wide standard HTML replace. The language but based on Windows and thus bring competing systems such as Linux falling behind. "The end result is the continuing lack of a genuine consumer choice, years of waiting for an improvement in the monopoly of Microsoft products and of course high prices," said a ECIS lawyer. The EU Commission had rendered its judgement in 2004 on the grounds that Microsoft's dominance ausnutze and the world's dominant Windows operating system for intentionally incompatible software from competitors create. At that time, it was about audio and video software in particular, the competitors RealNetworks. Wal / Reuters

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The dispute between the federal government and the EU Commission on the Protection of Deutsche Telekom from competition in their new high-speed VDSL network more acute. Media Commissioner Viviane Reding threatened with legal action.
Brussels - When the federal government a draft law still does not change, whether a trial is inevitable, Mrs. Reding said the spokesman in Brussels today. Such a procedure could be up to the European Court of Justice. The Commission had public statements by the German Economics Ministry noted that Berlin is not a German deviate from their draft would, said the spokesman. "The Commission, but no reason to believe that competition is the enemy of investment." Therefore, should the new telecom network opened up to competition.
The Commission acted in response to the announcement by the Federal Government, in its draft law to a regulatory break for the telecom noted. The government will allow Telekom, for some time even to determine what prices they milliardenteures network open to competitors.
The competitionguardian of the community consider this a breach of EU law. They demand therefore that the access of telecom competitors on the network of government-regulated. This would likely lower prices to other companies where their customers access to the telecom network by customers.
Legallycrucial is whether the new network a new offer. Telekom expects. The Commission considers that the new network on the other hand, only for modernization of the old monopoly of the telecom network, to which access is regulated. mik / Reuters

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Health insurance, the series bankruptcy, doctors, patients only against advance treat: Such horror scenarios would be for the everyday health care reform, predicts Ver.di chief Frank Bsirske to launch a protest week. Meanwhile start the first practice tests for the health card.
Frankfurt - The planned health reform provides that future health insurance as private companies accounted for and pension obligations as a burden should identify, said Ver.di chief Frank Bsirske the "Frankfurter Rundschau". "This would lead to many high-indebted banks abruptly and would have to file for bankruptcy," he said.
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dentist at work: health card is grßtes German IT project As a result, patients would only against prepayment treated because the doctors do not lose their fee wanted predicted Bsirske. Many politicians surveyed have no idea what to do with the reform anrichteten. The DGB will today a week of action on health reform.
With a year late start today, meanwhile, the first field tests of the electronic health card. In test regions in Schleswig-Holstein and Saxony, the first voluntary participants in the field test the new card.
with photo and chip card works out first but not unlike the current insurance card. Only after they should, inter alia, emergency data and electronic recipes record and later as a key for an electronic patient record. The high-tech card is regarded as the most grßte German IT project, 2008, all approximately 80 million privately insured and legally equipped. ASE / Ap / ddp

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The investigation into the bribe scandal at Siemens rich to the group's top: In the large raid in the past week, a newspaper report that the office of CEO Kleinfeld searched.
Munich - Investigators have also searched offices of other board members, reported the "Sueddeutsche Zeitung". This information confirmed the head of the Prosecutor Munich I, Christian Schmidt-Sommerfeld, the newspaper.
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Siemens CEO Kleinfeld: the case of extraordinary dimension " Several employees of the electrical group are under suspicion for years companies money in millions of dollars diverted to. Investigators want to find out whether and how much of it in any Schmiergeldtöpfe for international transactions flowed. After information was Newspaper leadership of Siemens already about a year before evidence of embezzlement allegations against managers of its communication division.
It also abroad. "We know since last year that criminal proceedings in Switzerland," quoted the "Sueddeutsche Zeitung" a Siemens spokesman. It was about the suspicion of money laundering gone. The company had launched an internal investigation, which has not yet been completed. We have seen no reason, German authorities on, as a procedure in Switzerland run. The Siemens board members did in the investigation as witnesses, said the group spokesman, according to the report.
According"South German newspaper" there are indications that since the nineties more than 100 million euros in funds frozen in black.
a major raid last Wednesday were about 30 offices and private homes of employees, especially in the Munich area and Erlangen searched. In connection with the investigation into embezzlement at the Siemens Group, the Swiss authorities froze bank accounts and then millions.
From the anti-corruption organization Transparency International (TI), the Siemens case may result in an extraordinary dimension. Given the allegations that even divisional board members should be involved, said the vice chairman of TI Germany, Peter von Blomberg, the "Berliner Zeitung": "If the confirmed, it would already amazing." Finally, the former CEO Heinrich von Pierer himself an anti-corruption policy in the Group.
"Now the question arises as to whether the ever been taken seriously or whether it was just a matter of the licence to maintain beautiful," said Blomberg. "To that extent it could be this is a very serious, unusual case." It is gratifying that the operations at Siemens now come to light. "Maybe the result is that the companies in the future with the sensitive issue," said Blomberg. hen / AP / AFP / ddp

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