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The Register » Hardware » Commissioner says MS fines inevitable€2.5m a day still pendingPublished Thursday 6th July 2006 10:51 GMT Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes told reporters yesterday that fines against Microsoft for failing to comply with 2004's anti-trust judgement were inevitable. Asked if she would fine Microsoft, Kroes said: "I can't imagine any other way." The commission ruled in 2004 that Microsoft was abusing its monopoly position. It made various demands, such as offering a version of Windows without Media Player and opening up APIs for servers. Kroes is on a two day trip to Germany and made the comments as she arrived in Berlin. It is believed a meeting was held on Monday to inform individual country regulators that the commission was going ahead with fining the software giant. The fine is €2.5m a day and has been backdated to last December. Earlier this week, Microsoft agreed to pay Korean regulators $35m to settle anti-trust complaints. More from Reuters here. ®
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