Microsoft loses first appeal in EU case
ENT News | at | by Mike
Microsoft's effort to delay European antitrust measures until the end of the appeals process failed with the release of an order Wednesday by the European Court of First Instance in Luxembourg.
The order upheld the March 2004 decision of the European Commission, which concluded after a five-year investigation that Microsoft had illegally abused its dominance in the desktop operating system market. The Commission called for Microsoft to pay a record fine of 497 million Euros, disclose Windows communications protocols to competitors to re-establish workgroup server operating system competition and release a version of Windows excluding Windows Media Player to invigorate media player competition.