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Google, Mozilla join antitrust case against Microsoft

Google Inc. said Tuesday it plans to join an antitrust case launched by the European Union against Microsoft Corp.

Mountain View, Calif.-based Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) will apply to become a third party in the proceedings against Redmond-based Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), which in January was accused of unfair competition in the browser market by tying Internet Explorer to Windows.

The E.U. case began after a complaint from a company in Oslo that makes a competing browser.

Also joining the proceedings is Mountain View-based Mozilla Corp., maker of the Firefox browser.

Google — which last year launched another competing browser, Chrome — made a similar complaint against Microsoft in 2006 to the Justice Department, which investigated and found that a threat was not posed to competition.

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