Rivals press EU to corral Microsoft on eve of Vista launch

Microsoft Corp.’s rivals renewed their call Friday on EU regulators to act against what they say are “illegal practices,” alleging that the new Vista operating system is the company’s attempt to extend its monopoly to the Internet.

The ECIS said Microsoft’s XAML markup language — which it said was positioned to replace the current Web page language HTML — was designed “from the ground up to be dependent on Windows.”

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