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EU Court Upholds Microsoft Antitrust Fines

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the chump-change dept.

a_n_d_e_r_s writes "The ongoing saga of Microsoft's misuse of their dominant position in the EU marketplace to block competitors may be finally over, with the fine set to 860 million euros (just over 1 billion dollars). In 2004 Microsoft was ordered to provide certain information to competitors but failed to do so and was given an hefty fine. Now the EU General Court in Luxembourg has upheld the EU Commission decision and ruled against Microsoft." This is a minor reduction (4.3%) of the original fine because of a minor technicality. Microsoft, naturally, is unhappy with the result.

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  1. Re:"Microsoft, naturally, is unhappy with the resu by Joce640k · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Mod parent up. It's a couple of month's profit for Microsoft. Spread it over eight years and it's not a bad investment.

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  2. Re:secure boot uefi by SuricouRaven · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And when the legal proceeding complete in about 2026, once Microsoft have successfully used Secure Boot to destroy all potential competition in the desktop space and profited by many tens of billions of euros, they can get another billion-euro fine for it.

  3. Good to see by StillNeedMoreCoffee · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Europe acting on anti-trust type of actions on big companies. I remember a time when the U.S. did that and we had decades of prosperity. Ah the good old prosperous days of the 50's and 60's with 90% top tax rate.

    1. Re:Good to see by RazorSharp · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Anytime a U.S. president gets shot he becomes sainted and we refuse to acknowledge the horrible things he's done. Getting shot is like automatic sainthood for a U.S. President (thank God Reagan survived his assassination attempt - imagine that moron as a martyr).

      Kennedy got us involved in Vietnam. Lincoln was personally responsible for more American deaths than any person/country/army. No one (aside from history buffs) knows much about McKinley or Garfield but they have a surprising amount of buildings and whatnot named after them for do-nothing presidents.

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  4. Re:secure boot uefi by KingMotley · · Score: 4, Interesting

    UEFI isn't a Microsoft technology, but feel free to try and prove that an open consortium has a monopoly and abused it somehow.