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

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