Microsoft Loses EU Antitrust Appeal, Faces $613 Million Fine
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The software giant withholds comment on the EU Court of First Instance's ruling that Redmond abused its monopolistic powers to muscle into the European server market.
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The European Union on Thursday threatened Microsoft Corp. with fines of up to $4 million a day, claiming the software giant had failed to live up to promises for providing affordable and useful information that could help rivals make software for workgroup servers compatible with its Windows system.
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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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Microsoft suffered a decisive antitrust defeat on Monday when a European Union court upheld a landmark ruling that the world's largest software maker had abused its dominant market position to crush rivals.
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Towel thrown in Microsoft has finally blinked in its three-year stare-out contest with the European Commission. Today the firm said it would not launch another appeal against the landmark â¬497m anti-trust fine slapped on it in 2004.â¦
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A top European court on Monday handed Microsoft a surprise defeat in its epic antitrust battles, backing the European Commission&#39;s 2004 record fine of 497 million euros (690 million dollars) against the software giant.
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A European Union court has upheld penalties imposed by the EU executive on Microsoft, dismissing the software giant&#39;s appeal for a suspension, according to a document obtained by Reuters.
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Microsoft said Tuesday it has appealed a July fine by the European Commission with the Court of First Instance, the European Union's second highest court. It also called the additional fine unfair, and blasted the EC for being vague.
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Microsoft lost its antitrust appeal.  Will this change anything?
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Luxembourg - American software giant Microsoft launched on Thursday its legal appeal against a stinging EU anti-trust ruling, six months after it was fined nearly â¬500-million for abusing its market dominance.
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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.
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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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BRUSSELS - Microsoft Corp. dropped a nearly decadelong legal battle with European regulators yesterday, agreeing to key parts of an antitrust ruling that has already led to hundreds of millions in fines.
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The European Union&#039;s top antitrust  regulator is set to issue a formal ruling finding software  giant Microsoft Corp.  guilty of breaking EU  competition rules, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.
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Loses appeal but can ditch trustee oversight Microsoft has lost its appeal against European Commission charges of anti-competitive behaviour.â¦
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US software giant Microsoft is to launch its legal appeal Thursday against a stinging EU anti-trust ruling, six months after it was fined nearly half a billion euros for abusing its market dominance.
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A European Union court on Monday dismissed Microsoft Corp.'s appeal against an EU antitrust order that ordered it to share communications code with rivals and sell a copy of Windows without Media Player.