EU Prepared to Fine Microsoft $2.5 Million Per Day

Lord_Slepnir writes "The European Union is unsatisfied with Microsoft's compliance with their anti-trust compliance from 2004, and is preparing to fine them 2 million Euros ($2.5m US) per day until they comply. Under that ruling, Microsoft must open up parts of their operating system to competitors, and change how they bundle Media Player." From the article: "On Monday, Microsoft said it had begun to provide the information Brussels had demanded, but the Commission has signaled the company acted too late. In December, Brussels informed the software giant that it had failed to comply with the original ruling it issued in March 2004."

Comments

What if MS fights back?

[Blimey85]

What is to stop MS from fighting back in some way? Maybe pulling all of their products from areas governed by this? I think that would sure shake things up a bit. I'm sure this will never happen but I think it might make a very strong point. MS provides something that millions of people need or at least think they need. How they got to be in the position they are in is pretty irrelevant at this point. They have a huge market share and if they really wanted to flex their corporate muscles, what could the Europeans do about it?

Shove it

[Bizzeh]

i hope microsoft tell the EU to shove their "easy money" sceme, thats all the EU want, microsoft's money.

i dont see why windows cant bundle WMP or IE, yet its ok for every linux dist to bundle a media player, and a browser.

microsoft have already opened up documents for everything the EU wanted, the EU are just getting greedy and forcing microsoft to give up more.