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."

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[Amouth]

if i was MS i would have said fuck it by now.. and pull out of the EU completely.. cut the jobs pull the product and stop updates to that subnet.. i mean.. that is one option. sure they can move to linux but at that point i wouldn't care.

the EU have been draging this out making it imposiable for MS to settle it.. i don't like alot of MS's pratices but here i am for them.. the EU is being very dirty.. and at this point i wish MS would just pull out and let them roll in the mud