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.NET News Desk Microsoft Hopes to End Its EC Problems
They have already paid $2.4 billion in fines for past perceived offenses
By: Maureen O'Gara
Jul. 10, 2009 03:45 PM
The wire service, citing four unidentified sources, said Microsoft wants to come to terms before antitrust chief Neelie Kroes leaves office this fall. Microsoft has already paid $2.4 billion in fines for past perceived offenses and is still appealing part of its mammoth fines. Microsoft has said it will cut the browser out of Windows in Europe to avoid being forced by the EC to offer users competitive browsers like Firefox and Opera. Bloomberg quotes New York University Law Professor Nicholas Economides as saying that move makes it difficult for the EC to defend a new fine in court.
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