{"id":751,"date":"2017-08-10T16:41:21","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T20:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/endpoint-security\/?p=751"},"modified":"2017-08-10T16:41:21","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T20:41:21","slug":"kaspersky-drops-antitrust-suit-against-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/endpoint-security\/kaspersky-drops-antitrust-suit-against-microsoft\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaspersky Drops Antitrust Suit Against Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Russian AV-firm Kaspersky Lab has dropped its antitrust complaints against Microsoft, after the Redmond, WA-based computing giant agreed<\/a> to give third-party antivirus parity with their own Windows Defender AV solution on Windows 10.<\/p>\n

Kaspersky\u00a0initially<\/a>\u00a0filed against\u00a0Microsoft with Russia\u2019s Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS), and then filed complaints with the European Commission and the German Federal Cartel Office in June<\/a>. The suits were filed on the grounds that the tech giant is using Windows 10 to push its own anti-virus software over competing third party products.<\/p>\n

In a\u00a0blog post<\/a>, Kaspersky Lab founder Eugene Kaspersky claimed that \u201cMicrosoft uses its dominant position in the computer operating system (OS) market to fiercely promote its own \u2013 inferior \u2013 security software (Windows Defender) at the expense of users\u2019 previously self-chosen security solution.\u201d According to Kaspersky, Microsoft removes his company\u2019s software when users switch to Windows 10, and installs its own Windows Defender AV product. Kaspersky also claims Microsoft does not provide enough time to fully test its latest Windows 10 upgrades to ensure existing software is compatible.<\/p>\n

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