Nuova stangata per Microsoft
BRUSSELS - The EU Antitrust inflicted a blow unprecedented Microsoft: The new penalty is € 899 million. For the software giant 's accusation is that they continued to abuse its dominant position even after the condemnation of the EU Commission in March 2004, which already cost the group of Bill Gates a SuperMulti from 497 million euro.
BRAKE ON COMPETITION - The penalty record has been imposed by Brussels because Microsoft does not respected the decision of March 2004 (confirmed in July 2006 and last September by the Court of Justice ) with which the European antitrust ordered to disclose accurate information to competitors to ensure the 'interoperability' between different systems : Brussels accused the U.S. company had not fulfilled the obligations set out in the March 2004 decision by the deadline of October 22, 2007, continuing to impose "unreasonable and excessive prices" in order to access your computer documentation in order to make it more difficult dialogue between their systems and those of competing groups for the development of programs that are compatible with operating systems and the software group Microsoft and operating systems compatible with the version of Windows server.
the story - EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes, has bitterly noted that Microsoft was "the first company in fifty years of European competition policy that the Commission had fined for failing to adequately antitrust decision '. He explained that the decision included a 2004 antitrust fine of € 497 million, after which the Commission in July 2006 imposed a daily fine of € 1.5 million for a total of 280.5 million euro. With that imposed Wednesday, fines add up to a total of 1.676 billion euro. And it went well even to the American group, as Ms Kroes stressed that the penalty for failing to comply with antitrust decisions could come to 1.5 billion. The decision covers a period that is not covered by the sanction of July 2006 and concerning what happened between June 21, 2006 and October 21, 2007.
Microsoft's response - "The European Commission last October, he announced that Microsoft was in full compliance with the decision of 2004: This fine thus refers to a past that issue was resolved." This is the replica of the U.S. sanctions announced by Brussels. Microsoft notes that "as demonstrated last week with the new interoperability principles and specific actions to increase the openness of our products, now we are focusing on steps that in the future may further improve the situation. " In recent days, in fact, the software giant said it was ready to give up - at least in part - to his secret , announced plans to disseminate the code to make its products better integrated with those marketed by other companies. A decision that Brussels had snubbed for the truth, saying that there were at least "four more ads like this, all without effect."
DOMAIN - The company founded by Bill Gates equips 92% of PCs in the world. The decisions of the EU Commission are related to the tying of Windows Media Player with the media player and server operating systems. For several weeks, however, Brussels announced it has opened a new file against Microsoft and investigate two new "elements of an offense 'means those aspects on which the European authorities have promised to investigate are once again linked Unification of other programs in the operating system (in this case the browser Internet Explorer) and opening Windows to rival products (in the viewfinder is the suite of Office software).
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