Microsoft suffers decisive EU antitrust defeat
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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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BRUSSELS, Belgium  - A European Union court ruled Wednesday that Microsoft Corp. must immediately share some trade secrets with competitors and produce a version of its Windows operating system stripped of a program that plays music and video.
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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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The European Union's second-highest court affirmed the EU's nine-year pursuit of Microsoft Corp. , rejecting the software maker's appeal and strengthening the bloc's hand as it pushes ahead with cases against other major technology companies.
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Investor's Business Daily - A European Union appeals court decision to uphold a 2004 antitrust ruling against Microsoft means tough restrictions on the firm will stick and could embolden the EU in other probes against Microsoft and other big companies.
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Microsoft Corp  ended three years of resistance on Monday and finally agreed to comply with a landmark 2004 antitrust decision by the European Commission.
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A European court has upheld the bulk of an antitrust ruling against Microsoft Corp. made by the European Commission in 2004
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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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European Court rejects Microsoft's appeal in historic case. Court sides with European Commission on three significant areas.
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Computer giant Microsoft has lost its legal appeal to delay a fine and anti-competitive penalties set by the European Commission, Reuters reports.
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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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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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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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As expected following news Monday that Microsoft would finally comply with the European Union's requirement that it make parts of its Windows source code available for distribution to developers, the Redmond company has officially dropped its appeal of the original 2004 antitrust ruling, as well as an appeal of the fine imposed in July 2006.
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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 early this morning dropped its decade-long antitrust battle with European regulators by agreeing not to appeal a landmark Sept. 17 court 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.