European Commission Scraps Microsoft Monitor
Wed, Mar 4th, 2009 |
Five years after its landmark antitrust ruling against Microsoft, the European Commission has decided it no longer needs to monitor the company's compliance with the ruling, it said Wednesday.
In addition to fining the company €497 million (US$794 million at the time) for monopoly abuse, Europe's top antitrust authority imposed remedies including the order to share interoperability information so that rivals could build software that works smoothly with the near ubiquitous Windows OS.
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