Opera Files EU Antitrust Suit Against Microsoft
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Opera Softwareâs complaint accuses Microsoft of abusing its dominant position in the desktop PC market by offering only Internet Explorer as a standard part of Windows.
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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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The European Commission warned  Microsoft on Thursday it faced further fines in its antitrust  case for seeking unreasonable prices from software makers for  interoperability information.
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Microsoft Corp. fought yesterday for a suspension of a landmark European Union antitrust ruling pending its appeal, arguing that being forced to share its closely guarded software codes with rivals now would do it irreversible damage.
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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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BREAKING NEWS - The European Court of First Instance in Luxembourg has ruled against Microsoft in its appeal of a March 2004 finding of the European Commission. In so doing, the Court upholds the EC's finding that Microsoft abused its dominant market position in Europe, first by failing to supply access to its protocols for enabling interoperability with its communications software in Windows and Windows Server, and second by bundling its Media Player with Windows XP.
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The European Commission said Microsoft was demanding unreasonable royalties from rivals seeking to link their software to the Windows operating system.
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A European Union court will rule Sept. 17 on Microsoft's challenge to an order that that imposed hundreds of millions of dollars of fines on the world's biggest software company for what the regulators said was anti-competitive activity, the court said Tuesday.
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EU criticizes Microsoft interoperability efforts in response to 2004 antitrust ruling, more fines possible.
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Novell Inc. on Friday filed an antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft Corp., accusing the software giant of unfairly eliminating competition for office productivity applications during the time Novell owned the WordPerfect word processing application and the Quattro Pro spreadsheet application.
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Microsoft Corp.'s five-year legal battle in Europe moves into a public courtroom for the first time as the U.S. software giant tries to get the European Union's landmark antitrust ruling against it lifted.
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Microsoft argued in a Luxembourg court on Thursday that the European Competition Commission&#39;s antitrust decision against it would infringe on its intellectual property and cause serious and irreparable harm to the company.
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The European Commission, fresh from a  major court victory over Microsoft , launched new  antitrust investigations into the software giant on Monday on  suspicion it abused its market dominance to favor its Web  browser and Office product.
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A top European Union judge challenged the EU executive's reasoning in its antitrust court battle with Microsoft Corp. Friday, questioning why it opposed the U.S. software giant's setting industry standards.
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Two U.S. software firms are asking the   European Commission to take action against Microsoft's MSFT.O   new Vista operating system, the Wall Street Journal reported on   Thursday.
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The European Union's top competition   regulator clashed with Microsoft on Tuesday over security   upgrades in the U.S. software giant's new Windows Vista   operating system in a re-run of past antitrust battles.
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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.