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REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft said Thursday it will share more information about its products and technology in an effort to make it work better with rivals’ software and meet the demands of antitrust regulators in Europe.
European Union regulators, however, expressed skepticism, saying the software maker did not address monopoly abuse in the past or allegations it seeks to undercut rivals by bundling Internet Explorer with the Windows operating system.
The company will still charge a patent license fee to companies that want to sell software built using this information. But chief software architect Ray Ozzie described the fees as “low royalty rates.” Microsoft said it posted 30,000 pages of documents online for non-Microsoft developers.
