Microsoft loses appeal against EU antitrust ruling
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Microsoft failed Monday in its bid to overturn aÂ European Commission antitrust rulingÂ against it, when the European Union's second highest court dismissed the company's appeal and ordered it to pay the bulk of the Commission's legal expenses.
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Microsoft Corp. said it won't appeal a European court antitrust decision that requires it to immediately begin licensing protocols to rivals and selling a stripped-down version of its Windows operating system.
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Microsoft Corp. said on Monday it had  decided not to appeal a December ruling by a European Union  court ordering it to immediately implement EU antitrust  sanctions imposed last March.
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A European Union court on Wednesday  confirmed it had upheld curbs imposed by the EU's executive on  Microsoft MSFT.O, dismissing the software giant's appeal for  a suspension.
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Software giant Microsoft  has  filed an appeal against a 280.5 million euro ($356.4 million)  fine the European Commission imposed in July, holding it defied  a 2004 antitrust ruling.
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A European Union court upheld a  landmark 2004 European Commission antitrust decision against  Microsoft  on Monday in a crucial victory for the  European competition regulator over the U.S. software giant.
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Dealing Microsoft a major legal setback, a European court yesterday rejected the software giant&#39;s appeal to suspend antitrust sanctions imposed by European regulators in March.
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Lawyers speak Microsoft today lost the majority of its appeal against the European Commission anti-trust decision. Microsoft will have to open up access to its server protocols, continue selling a version of its Windows operating system without Media Player, and pay a fine of at least â¬497m.â¦
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The European Commission won an appeals court challenge from MicrosoftÂ on Monday, but its 2004 antitrust decision has done little to change the competitive landscape for media players in Europe.
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MicrosoftÂ has filed an appeal against the latest antitrust fine imposed on it by the European Commission, a Microsoft spokesman said on Tuesday.
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A European Union appeals court's decision to uphold a 2004 antitrust order against Microsoft Corp. means that U.S.-based multinationals will continue to face tougher competition rules in Europe than at home, legal experts said.
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LUXEMBOURG -- Microsoft lost its appeal of a European antitrust order Monday that obliges the technology giant to share communications code with rivals, sell a copy of Windows without Media Player and pay a $613 million fine _ the largest ever by EU regulators.
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Microsoft has dropped two outstanding appeals of European antitrust rulings, following the deal struck with the European Commission at the beginning of this week, the company said in a statement Wednesday.Last year, Microsoft appealed the &#8364;280.5 million fine it incurred for failing to provide interoperability protocols to rivals, as required in the landmark 2004 European Commission antitrust ruling. The appeal was filed with the Court of First Instance (CFI).It also appealed against the Commission&#39;s demands that it make the protocols available to open-source software developers.However, in light of&#160;the agreement reached between Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes&#160;on Monday, these appeals became redundant.Less than a month after suffering&#160;a crushing defeat in its original appeal of the 2004 ruling, Microsoft said Monday it would finally comply with that ruling. All the required interoperability protocols would be made available to the open-source community and the price for them would be slashed, Microsoft said.The two outstanding appeals to the CFI were no longer necessary, said Erich Andersen, European General Counsel for Microsoft.&quot;We believe it&#39;s important at this stage to focus all of our energies on complying with our legal obligations and strengthening our constructive relationship with the European Commission,&quot; he said in the statement.The Commission welcomed the withdrawal of the appeals, spokesman Jonathan Todd said.The only loose end remaining in the nine-year long antitrust battle between the world&#39;s biggest software maker and Europe&#39;s top competition authority is the calculation of fines still to be paid for Microsoft&#39;s three and a half years of non-compliance.The &#8364;280.5 million fine imposed in July last year was the sum of daily fines of &#8364;2 million for not honoring the ruling to that date. When that fine was announced, Kroes said the Commission would increase the daily fine to &#8364;3 million.Microsoft was officially deemed in compliance with the 2004 ruling on Monday, over 14 months after the last fine was imposed. A rough calculation would put the new fine at close to &#8364;1 billion. When added to the &#8364;280.5 million fine imposed last year and the original &#8364;497 million fine imposed in 2004 the total of antitrust fines in the case is about &#8364;1.8 billion.The Commission will announce the final tally toward the end of this year, Todd said.
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Europeâs second-highest court upheld today a 2004 antitrust ruling that found the software company had abused its dominance in operating systems.
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The European Union&#39;s Court of First Instance has rejected Microsoft&#39;s appeal of the European Commission&#39;s 2004 landmark antitrust decision against the company, which concluded that the software giant had abused its dominant position in the computer industry &quot;by leveraging its near monopoly in the market for PC operating systems.&quot;
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A European Union court rules on Monday whether Microsoft abused its near-monopoly on computer operating systems to push out rivals, in a protracted case that has major implications on the EU's power to enforce antitrust policy.
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Microsoft Corp. said Wednesday it has withdrawn the two remaining legal challenges to an EU antitrust order that it now says it will obey.