Windows Software Lawsuit

Microsoft fined $1.3 billion for failing to comply with the European Union's antitrust order.

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Brussels, Belgium: (Feb-27-08) Microsoft Corp. has been embroiled in a legal battle with the European Union since Sun Microsystems Inc. brought a complaint against it in 1998. The suit alleged that Microsoft was refusing to supply information that servers need to work with its market dominating Windows operating system. Following the complaint, sources stated that Microsoft eventually made the information available to rivals. The European Union said that the company had charged unreasonable prices to do so up until October 2007. The European Union alleged that Microsoft withheld crucial interoperability information to squeeze into a new market and damage rivals that make programs for workgroup servers that help office computers connect to each other and to printers and faxes. Records confirm that the company delayed complying with the European Union order for three years, only making changes on Oct. 22, 2007 to the patent licenses it charges companies that need data to help them make software that works with Microsoft.

As part of a settlement reached, the Union's longest-running fight with Microsoft Corp. seemed to have ended after regulators imposed a record $1.3 billion fine on the world's largest software company for failing to fully comply with a 2004 antitrust order. Company spokespersons stated that the company has not decided whether to appeal the penalty, which amounts to a fraction of the $14.07 billion it earned in fiscal 2007. The company has been fined just under $2.4 billion total by European antitrust regulators over the years. [FORBES: MICROSOFT ANTITRUST]

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