by MONITOR
AFTER nine years of hard legal arguing the European court delivered its verdict in just four minutes yesterday, rejecting Microsoft's appeal against a 2004 judgement that had fined it almost 500 million euros for abusing its dominance of the software market by refusing to share information that would allow interoperability between another company's servers and equipment produced by Microsoft. It seems unlikely that Microsoft will choose to mount another expensive and time-consuming appeal although it may find some minor points of law to clarify in the 248-page judgement. Failure to act on the court's rulings can be an expensive business; in 2006 Microsoft were fined an extra 280 million euros for failing to comply with earlier judgements.
MICROSOFT LOSE
24/09/2013 00:00
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