Mailing the story:

We all know about the overwhelming supremacy of proprietary software in the desktop market. But not everybody knows that some steps have been taken to try to limit it, in favour of a more fair competition among vendors, and between the proprietary and free software worlds. A key player in assuring that the markets are not artificially biased is the European Commission for Competition. In this article, I review the cases it brought against Microsoft Corporation, with particular attention to the one concerning the bundling of the Internet Explorer web browser to the Windows operating system.

Read the article at Free Software Magazine.