Microsoft saw quite a bit of legal and governmental action the week of Dec.14. In addition to resolving issues related to Internet Explorer and Windows with the European Commission, Microsoft also had to deal with a lawsuit over the name Bing, and faces another possible suit from a Taiwanese company after a third-party contractor reportedly plagiarized code for a MSN China microblogging application. Microsoft has declined to tell eWEEK how it internally vets code for its software, a question inspired by two incidences of code plagiarism by Microsoft subcontractors in November and December.
– Microsoft and the European Commission, the law enforcement body of the
European Union responsible for antitrust initiatives, wrapped up at least one
part of their sometimes-contentious relationship this week. On Dec. 16,
Microsoft agreed to install an automatic quot;ballot screen quot; that woul…