Microsoft Shares Buoyed Despite EU Woes

Intra-day trading on Microsoft lifted the stock price by 14 cents, but concerns raised by the European Commission over the forthcoming Vista operating system could prove troublesome. In October 2005, the information security firm Symantec (NASD:MSFT) planned bundling of antivirus and anti-spyware software with Vista. Recently, EU antitrust regulators expressed their concerns about Microsoft potentially limiting consumer choices on software. The company's CEO Steve Ballmer said in Munich in early October 2005 that Microsoft Client Security RHAT) dropped 64 cents in intraday trading despite AAPL) announced its update permits users to set a maximum volume setting on the device. "With the increased attention in this area, we want to offer customers an easy to use option to set their own personal volume limit," said Greg Joswiak, Apple's vice president of Worldwide iPod Product Marketing. Add to document.write("Del.icio.us") | Yahoo! My Web Drag this to your Bookmarks. David Utter is a staff writer for Murdok covering technology and business.