Microsoft Corp. got an early Christmas present when the European Commission announced Wednesday that it was dropping its antitrust case against the company.
The commission had charged that Microsoft distorted competition by tying Internet Explorer to Windows. European regulators argued that this tying hindered innovation in the market and created artificial incentives for software developers and content providers to design their products or Web sites primarily for Internet Explorer.
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