Microsoft Receives $357M in Fines
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on July 12, 2006 at 2:13:27 PM
The European Union has some bite and is taking a chunk out of Microsoft because they haven't followed the ruling of the antitrust case in 2004. The daily fine has been backed dated to the ruling. Microsoft, are you listening? Open up your APIs!
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Brussels had warned Microsoft in December that it would face fines of 2m euros a day if the firm failed to meet the commission's demands.Under the 2004 ruling, Microsoft was told to provide rival firms with more information about its software, in order to enable them to write programs that could run more smoothly on Microsoft's widely-used Windows operating system.