Microsoft may want to leave Windows XP behind, but Taiwan actively refuses to do so. It may sound strange at first, but it appears that the Taiwanese Fair Trade Commission doesn’t approve of the company’s way of “forcing” people to choose Windows Vista as their operating system.

The Commission began an antitrust investigation on a very delicate matter: is Microsoft using monopoly to boost Vista sales? The first arguments in their complaint involve customer dissatisfaction with Vista, which makes them install Windows XP on Vista-enabled computers.

But do they really have a case against Microsoft? In fact, what Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission is trying to do is make Microsoft continue selling a product they do not wish to continue selling. Furthermore, even though they accuse Microsoft of unfair market competition, is it fair to make them re-sell the XP, now that the operating system has a successor?

According to experts in the field, the Taiwanese commission doesn’t have a solid case against Microsoft. Since Microsoft continues to offer XP support until 2014, and continues to offer Windows XP on low-cost computers, it appears they didn't "kill" XP afterall, they just retired it.

But officials with the Taiwan Fair Trade Commission, as well as most users, represented by the nonprofit consumer’s foundation, believe Windows X should stay. If Microsoft is to be found guilty of breaking the Taiwanese antitrust law, they will have to pay fines.

Microsoft responded by saying they will comply with Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission investigation, as well as supply them with whatever information they may require, highlighting that they continue to support fair market competition.

Microsoft has had quite a hard time “integrating” Windows Vista among customers, after dealing with petitions of indefinite availability of Windows XP and a lot of resentment from users who didn’t want to get stuck with Vista for two long years, until Windows 7 is expected to come out.