Microsoft Hit With Suit Over XP 'Downgrade' Fees

For Microsoft's legal department, as Yogi Berra once said, it must seem "like dj vu all over again."

The Redmond software giant is already enmeshed in a class-action suit over whether it mislead people who purchased PCs prior to the launch of Windows Vista -- the so-called "Vista Capable" suit.

Microsoft's lawyers are also dealing with recent European Commission rulings against it for anticompetitive practices, including illegally tying Internet Explorer (IE) to Windows. ... Go to source