EU Fines Microsoft $613 Million, Officially

Posted by timothy on Wednesday March 24, 2004 @01:14AM from the golden-goose-time dept.

Decaffeinated Jedi writes "As reported by CNN.com, the European Union has hit Microsoft with a record US$613 million fine after a five-year investigation, finding the company guilty of abusing the 'near-monopoly' of the Windows operating system. Microsoft has been given 90 days to make a European version of Windows available without a media player and 120 days to give programming codes to rivals in the server market to allow 'full interoperability' with desktops running Windows. Microsoft plans to appeal the decision." Other readers point to coverage at the BBC, ZDNet, Reuters (here carried by Yahoo!), and abc.au.net.

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Re:job offer by JaredOfEuropa · 2004-03-24 02:19 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Lets hope this doesn't affect my 90k/y job offer from MS!
Hmm not bad. The offer I got from them was just for 30 pieces of silver.

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