USanti-virus firm accuses Microsoft of misusing technologies

U.S. anti-virus company Symantec on Thursday accused computer-industry giant Microsoft of misusing its technologies. In a lawsuit filed Thursday in federal court in the state of Washington, where Microsoft is based, Symantec accused Microsoft of misappropriating its data storage technologies. Over nearly a decade, Microsoft has "deliberately and surreptitiously" misappropriated Symantec's storage technologies, misled and thereby convinced the U.S. government to issue patents to Microsoft based on technologies invented by Symantec," Symantec said in its complaint. The California-based company charged that Microsoft overstepped the bounds of the licensing deal between the two companies and broke the terms of the contrac...

» Xinhua - 19-05-2006