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EU blow to Microsoft on Windows
Microsoft will be forced to hand over to rivals what the group claims is sensitive and valuable technical information about its Windows operating system for next to no compensation, according to a confidential document seen by the FT.
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Oil and Iran
If proof was needed of the existence of an “Ahmadi-Nejad put” in the oil market, the past fortnight has provided it. The crisis precipitated by the capture of British naval personnel by Iranian forces pushed up US light, sweet crude by 9 per cent to $66 a barrel.