Microsoft Faces EU Complaint From Rivals

Microsoft Corp. was accused by a group representing IBM Corp., Oracle Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. of abusing its dominance in products such as Word and Excel.

The European Committee for Interoperability Systems, which represents the three companies and six others, said it filed a complaint with the European Commission and asked it to start a probe against Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft.

“We have evidence that Microsoft has refused to disclose formatting and other information,” said Thomas Vinje, a lawyer representing the group.