EU extends Microsoft deadline on charges
ENT News | at | by Mike
Microsoft now has until April 23 to respond to EU charges that it fails to offer rivals a fair deal on licenses for communications code that helps servers work with Windows, an EU spokesman said Monday.
The European Commission originally set a four-week deadline ending April 3, threatening to start levying daily fines of euro3 million (US$4 million) a day after that. Microsoft said it needed more time to address the complex issues involved.
The EU had ordered the company to share communications code with rivals as part of a 2004 antitrust order that found Microsoft broke anti-monopoly rules by denying competitors information needed to link the servers -- which organize all the computers in an office -- to desktop PCs running Windows.