Microsoft's reluctance to make its Office suite interoperable with competing products has prompted a British government agency to complain to the European Commission, which is already investigating the company's conduct in this area.
The British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (BECTA) filed a complaint with the U.K. Office of Fair Trading last October, and has now forwarded it to the Commission, it said late Monday. The complaint alleges that Microsoft's behavior impedes the exchange of files between Office 2007 and competitors' products, and that its licensing practices in the market for software for schools are anticompetitive.
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