EU may be planning billions in fines against Microsoft
ENT News | at | by Mike
The European Union may hit Microsoft with a record $2.2 billion (1.5 billion Euros) fine as early as tomorrow for not complying with parts of the EU's antitrust ruling from 2004, according to a published report.
The news story by Bloomberg cites three anonymous sources familiar with the plan as saying that the EU is imposing the maximum fine because Microsoft has not offered what the EU considers "reasonable" charges when it comes to the patent licenses competitors need to interoperate with Microsoft software.