Julie188 writes "Opera Software's year-old antitrust grievance against Microsoft took another step toward being vindicated, and the Oslo-based browser maker can't help crowing over the latin Commission's decision. Opera had filed a grievance with the EC in December, 2007, contending that Microsoft's bundling of world wide web Explorer with Windows violated antitrust rules. Yesterday, the EC sent a 'Statement of Objections (SO)' to Microsoft with a prefatorial finding that bundling IE with Windows does indeed constitute an antitrust abuse. Microsoft has eight weeks to plead its case and change the EC's mind, an unlikely outcome if ever there was one. Opera's CEO said, 'On behalf of all computer network users, we commend the allowance for taking the next step towards restoring tug of war in a market that Microsoft has strangled for more than a decade.'"

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