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MS gets EU fine, orders for server info and WMP-free Windows

by Marianna Schmudlach Mar 24, 2004 12:48AM PST

By John Lettice
Posted: 24/03/2004 at 12:19 GMT

As expected, Microsoft was today hit with a record-breaking fine by the European Commission. But although Microsoft is complaining mightily about it, the sum involved will make a negligible impact on Redmond's coffers. Nor, of itself, is the Commission's insistence that Microsoft must offer a version of Windows free of Windows Media Player to PC companies - the effectiveness of the Commission's remedies will lie in the success or otherwise of its requirements on interface disclosure, and of its strictures against "using any commercial, technological or contractual terms" to cripple the stripped-down version of Windows.

More: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/36496.html

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