Brussels sets deadline for Microsoft

[OldBoy]

Brussels gave Microsoft a nine-day deadline yesterday to provide its rivals with outstanding details of its software systems or face fresh fines.

Neelie Kroes, the European Union's competition commissioner, gave the world's largest software group until next Thursday - Thanksgiving Day in America - to hand over all relevant information about the secret protocols behind its Windows operating system. Ms Kroes fined Microsoft €280.5m (£190m) in July for failing to comply with commission rulings and could now fine it up to €3m a day.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/microsoft/Story/0,,1948085,00.html

[cluberti]

I love the EU. Hand over your IP if you want to business here...