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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. That's Surprising... by lag10 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Their motto is usually "pry it from my cold, dead hands" in regards to these fines.

    Wonder what's with the change of heart?

  2. Re:Eurodollar to US Dollar by GreatBunzinni · · Score: 4, Interesting

    To make matters worse, eurodollars are not nor were they ever euros. Eurodollars are regular, plain US dollars that are deposited outside of the US's jurisdiction and therefore out of the control of the US's central banking system. So I guess someone heard that new term somewhere and didn't had time to know a bit about it before spreading it around. To put it in other words...

      "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

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