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Microsoft's Price Fixing Penalty, 9M Euros

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the oh-darn-guess-we'll-do-that-again dept.

freakxx writes "Microsoft has been slapped with a fine of 9 million Euros by German regulators over illegally fixing the price of its Office-suite in an anti-competitive manner during a retail-promotion fair. Microsoft has accepted the fine and decided not to take this issue to any higher level."

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  1. small change... by smoatigah · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thats going to make a huge dent that is...

    1. Re:small change... by GameMaster · · Score: 4, Funny

      It may not look like much, but when you convert it from Euros to US Dollars it's something like $1.3 billion. ;-)

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    2. Re:small change... by interstellar_donkey · · Score: 2, Funny

      They lose money on every product sold, no matter what. They make money by selling a lot of them (volume!)

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    3. Re:small change... by DinDaddy · · Score: 2, Funny

      Not only that, but "semi-colon minus right parenthesis" makes NO sense at all!

    4. Re:small change... by baboo_jackal · · Score: 2, Funny

      Heh. Good little Socialists. Suck on the teat of productive free enterprise until it shrivels up. But the EU isn't the only game in town anymore, now that we've got Obama and friends lining up to get their share.

  2. Re:Eurodollar to US Dollar by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Can I get that in some kind of a useful unit, like numbers of bionic men?

  3. Re:Eurodollar to US Dollar by InsertWittyNameHere · · Score: 4, Funny

    In the USA it's called Corona and it's a Mexican beer.

  4. Re:Eurodollar to US Dollar by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Two, of course.

  5. Re:"Anti-competitive" by Kynde · · Score: 2, Funny

    Fuck Germany. They need Microsoft more than Microsoft needs them.

    Come on, nobody needs microsoft that much...

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