Microsoft suffers stunning EU antitrust defeat
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BRUSSELS/LUXEMBOURG  - Microsoft suffered a  stunning defeat on Monday when a European Union court backed a  European Commission ruling that the U.S. software giant  illegally abused its market power to crush competitors.
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Microsoft has lost its appeal to delay a fine and anti-competitive penalties set by the European Commission.
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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 loses its appeal of a European antitrust order Monday that obliges the technology giant to pay a record $613 million fine, share communications code with rivals and sell a copy of Windows without Media Player.
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Microsoft  suffered a decisive  antitrust defeat on Monday when a European Union court upheld a  landmark ruling that the world&#39;s largest software maker had  abused its dominant market position to crush rivals.
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European Court rejects Microsoft's appeal in historic case. Court sides with European Commission on three significant areas.
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European Union regulators fined  Microsoft  280.5 million euros (&#36;357.3 million) on  Wednesday for defying a 2004 antitrust ruling, and warned the  company to comply or face bigger fines from next month.
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A European Union court ruled that Microsoft must immediately divulge some trade secrets to competitors and produce a version of its flagship Windows operating system stripped of the program that plays music and video.
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When a European court hands down its  landmark Microsoft  antitrust decision next Monday, at  stake will be nothing less than the power of the European  Commission to regulate the high-tech industry.
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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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Microsoft faces on Monday a decisive chapter in its epic battles with antitrust regulators when Europe&#39;s second-highest court rules whether the software giant is guilty of abusing its crushing market share.
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PARIS, Sept. 17 -- A European Union court Monday rejected Microsoft's appeal of a European antitrust order requiring it to share software information with rivals and pay a record $690 million in fines for quashing competition.
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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 &#151; the largest ever by EU regulators.
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Computer giant Microsoft loses its legal appeal to delay a fine and anti-competitive penalties set by the European Commission.
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Microsoft  said on Monday it  would not appeal against its defeat in a landmark antitrust  case in a top European Union court last month.
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Software giant Microsoft MSFT.O 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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The EU struck at the commercial backbone of Microsoftâs global software empire today - forcing the company for the first time to strip its Windows platform of a popular feature to give competitors a better shot at success.