Microsoft set for long battle with Japanese regulators
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
Microsoft's Japanese unit is preparing for a potentially long battle with the Japan Fair Trade Commission in a case that will likely see three of Japan's top electronics companies testify against the software giant, the company's top lawyer in Japan said Wednesday.
The dispute, which is bogged down right now, could heat up in early 2006 when Sony, Mitsubishi Electric, and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. will probably be called by the JFTC, Japan's competition regulator, to try to prove that Microsoft Co. Ltd. broke Japan's Antimonopoly Act, said Takashi Hirano, Microsoft's senior attorney.