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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8673

25 March 2004
Contents Publication in full By article 14 / 47
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/competition
Harsh judgement for Microsoft - American group to appeal

Brussels, 24/03/2004 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission has made its decision: Microsoft has indeed broken European competition rules by abusing its quasi-monopoly on PC operating systems to weaken competition on the work group server operating systems and multimedia reader systems. The Commission has therefore imposed a series of fines, which Microsoft will have to pay off in order to re-establish competition, and fined the company 497 million EUR, the highest ever fine, because...

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