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Microsoft Again: Mega Penalty Payment

By Bartolus

The Commission has imposed a penalty payment of ? 899 million (US $ 1,359 million) on Microsoft for non-compliance with its obligations under the Commission?s March 2004 Decision prior to 22 October 2007.

The Decision, adopted pursuant to Article 24(2) of Regulation 1/2003, finds that, prior to 22 October 2007, Microsoft had charged unreasonable prices for access to interface documentation for work group servers. The 2004 Decision, which was upheld in September 2007 by the Court of First Instance in Case T-201/04 as we noted here, found that Microsoft had abused its dominant position under Article 82 EC, and required Microsoft to disclose interface documentation which would allow non-Microsoft work group servers to achieve full interoperability with Windows PCs and servers at a reasonable price.

Here's the Commission's press release.

Full post as published by EU Law Blog on February 27, 2008 (boomark / email).