Microsoft must pay $1.4bn to EU - regulators inform that the MS is the first to break an EU antitrust ruling..

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The European Commission has fined US computer giant Microsoft for defying sanctions imposed on it for anti-competitive behaviour.


Microsoft must now pay 899 million euros ($1.4bn; £680.9m) after it failed to comply with a 2004 ruling that it took part in monopolistic practices.





The ruling said that Microsoft was guilty of not providing vital information to rival software makers.





EU regulators said the firm was the first to break an EU antitrust ruling.


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I guess they can afford it but how shameful hey?

Microsoft must pay $1.4bn to EU - regulators inform that the MS is the first to break an EU antitrust ruling..
EU wants a piece of the pie that is it in a nut shell. They are trying to protect competitors not competition, they are not looking for software compatibility, they want to copy it! They can't crack this technology or improve on it and it's pissing them off ! They write vague requirements because they want to see how much information Microsoft will give up, and when they didn't get what they wanted they just said Microsoft violated the court order
Reply:Shameful really it is.
Reply:It's been the same for 20 years. Come back IBM all is forgiven.
Reply:Outrageous!

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