Microsoft acts to avoid further EU fines
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
Microsoft has filed another batch of technical information with the European Commission, in an effort to avoid an increase in fines resulting from a 2004 antitrust ruling against the company, a Commission spokeswoman said Monday.
On July 12, the Commission fined Microsoft 280.5 million ($358 million) for not supplying the technical information about the communications protocols used by its workgroup server software requested in the antitrust ruling. The Commission calculated the fine at 1.5 million per day for the period from Dec. 16, 2005, to June 20, and warned the company that the daily fine could increase if it did not supply all the requested documentation by July 31.