Microsoft drops all legal challenges against EU antitrust order
Microsoft Corp. said Wednesday it has withdrawn the two remaining legal challenges to an EU antitrust order that it now says it will obey. The world’s largest software maker yielded to European Union regulators on Monday, when it promised to obey key parts of a 2004 monopoly abuse ruling upheld by an appeals court last month.
The software giant said it told the EU’s appeals court on Wednesday that it was withdrawing an appeal against the 280.5 million euros ($357 million) fine that regulators imposed in July 2006 for not complying with an earlier demand that it share technical information with rivals. That order aimed to help IBM, Sun, Novell and Oracle make software for server computers that would work smoothly with Microsoft’s Windows desktop operating system – found on 95 percent of all personal computers.
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