Microsoft: EU ruling could come soon
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Microsoft chief lawyer Brad Smith said Tuesday that the company expects to hear back from a European court as early as December on its appeal of the landmark antitrust ruling there.
"We expect to get that decision really in the next several months," Smith said during a question-and-answer session at the company's shareholder meeting in Bellevue, Wash. "Most people think it will probably come some time between December and March or April."
The European Union's antitrust regulators slapped Microsoft with a $600 million fine in March 2004, but the software maker has been pursuing an appeal of the case with Europe's Court of First Instance.