Kaspersky tones down threat of antitrust complaint against Microsoft

Kaspersky will keep talking to Microsoft about changes it wants the US software giant to make before deciding on further action.

HANOVER: Russia's Kaspersky Lab has temporarily backed off filing a competition complaint that Microsoft is abusing its market dominance to crowd out anti-virus software makers such as itself, founder and chief executive Eugene Kaspersky said. 

Instead, Kaspersky – who threatened in November to complain to the European Commission – said he would keep talking to Microsoft about changes he wants the US software giant to make before deciding whether to press his case in a few months. "They are listening to us and they made a few changes. It's an ongoing process," he told Reuters on the sidelines of the Hannover Messe industrial trade fair. "Of course if Microsoft agrees to all our requests we will not file it."