The European Commission confirmed it has received a complaint about Microsoft's business practices from a British government agency Tuesday, but isn't following it up as it normally would with an antitrust complaint, according to a press officer.

The British Educational Communications and Technology Agency filed the complaint to the Office of Fair Trading. "We are already looking into the issues raised in that complaint already and we are not treating it as a formal complaint to us," the press officer said.

Microsoft said in a statement Tuesday that it will continue to work with BECTA and the Commission to resolve the issues raised in the complaint.

BECTA filed the complaint with the UK Office of Fair Trading last October alleging that Microsoft's behavior impedes the exchange of files between Office 2007 and competitors' products and that its licensing practices in the market for software for schools are anticompetitive. BECTA Tuesday forwarded the complaint to the Commission.

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