"Our goal is to be principled and transparent in the development of new versions of Windows. These voluntary principles are intended to provide developers and users of the benefits and for the establishment and maintenance of healthy competition opportunities. Principles adopted and are outside the terms of American anti-monopoly control," said Brad Smith (Brad Smith), the chief legal adviser of Microsoft.

The last item is the most interesting, and provide a number of others, including those that are not listed because they are either obvious or were already known. Previously, small doubts remained about whether there will be Windows Vista with a built-service Windows Live. But now knows that will not happen.

Statement by the company's agreement to submit to the anti-monopoly legislation, sounded less than a week after the European Union (EU) fined Microsoft $ 357 million for the failure of anti-monopoly regulations, made in 2004. Given recent warnings Neeley Kroesa (Neelie Kroes), the European Commissioner for Anti-Monopoly Committee of the proceedings, on the Windows Vista may not be surprising that Microsoft made a statement so quickly.

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Referring to the "12 principles" for Windows Vista, Brad Smith stressed that PC manufacturers will be able to replace the Google search engine on the Windows Live Search, a built-in Internet Explorer, to be released along with Windows Vista. In connection with this opportunity earlier, Google filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice.