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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10800

7 March 2013
ECONOMY - FINANCES - BUSINESS / (ae) competition
European Commission fines Microsoft €561 million

Brussels, 06/03/2013 (Agence Europe) - On 6 March, the European Commission fined US giant Microsoft 1% of its annual turnover, €561 million, for failing in its commitment to put a multi-choice window on its Windows operating system for five years, from 2009 to 2014. The required window, which allows users to choose different browsers rather than always Internet Explorer, did not appear between May 2011 and July 2012. This is the first fine of this type under Article 9 of EU Regulation...

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