Commissioner says MS fines inevitable
Print€2.5m a day still pending
Posted in Hardware, 6th July 2006 10:51 GMT
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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.
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