The Norwegian developer of the Opera browser has lost a lawsuit seeking to overturn the European Union’s competition authority’s decision to remove the Microsoft Edge browser from the scope of the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which seeks to limit the dominance of big tech companies.
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In 2024, the European Commission ruled that the Edge browser was not an important channel for companies to reach users, even though it met quantitative standards set by the DMA, a law that contains a list of dos and don’ts for big tech companies.
According to Opera, the European Commission, the antitrust regulator, applied the standards incorrectly. But the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg sided with the European Commission, which won more than just its first victory in the DMA proceedings. “The court upholds the commission’s decision not to designate Microsoft as Edge gatekeeper.”decided to say. The court ruled that the department did not err in accepting the “Microsoft’s reasonable argument is that Edge is not a critical gateway”.
Opera has long been at odds with Microsoft – it filed a complaint against the software giant in 2007 and was fined €561 million in 2013 for not providing users with a choice of browser.
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