EU, Microsoft Expected to End Antitrust Dispute

The European Union and Microsoft are likely to end a decade-long dispute when EU antitrust regulators will accept the U.S. software company's amended offer on allowing consumer choice on Internet browsers, sources said. Three people familiar with the situation said the European Commission was expected to approve Microsoft's plan to make it easier for consumers to choose rival browsers on the firm's Windows operating system, which is used on a majority of personal computers.