Recently, Eugene Kaspersky announced in a blog post that his company was filing complaints of anticompetitive behavior by Microsoft in “various countries (including the EU and Russia).” It’s not clear if Kaspersky Labs is complaining to officials in the United States.
Kaspersky’s beef isn’t really with the existence of Defender. Rather, it’s with how Defender is favored to the detriment of competing, paid products.
There’s little doubt Microsoft is promoting its own software inside Windows 10, and aggressively so. We recently reported on Microsoft’s advertisements for Edge on the taskbar even when another browser is designated as the default program. There have also been annoyances with major updates, such as Windows 10 resetting user preferences to Microsoft defaults.
Full Story– PC World
