The European Commission said Monday it was not examining Microsoft's Windows XP operating system, due to go on sale next week, as part of an antitrust investigation into the U.S. software giant. Amelia Torres, spokeswoman for EU Competition Commissioner Mario Monti, told a news briefing, "At this point, the Commission is not examining XP officially or unofficially." She was responding to a report in The Financial Times on Monday that Monti planned to start a preliminary inquiry into Windows XP and had sent the company a number of questions to discover if the bundling of new software applications into the operating system was anticompetitive.
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