EU Could Fine Microsoft $5M Daily

A story by the Associated Press says that EU authorities can legally fine Microsoft $5 million dollars per day if they feel the company is acting too slowlyto apply measures imposed

“In March 2004 the commission imposed a record fine of 497 million euros on Microsoft, a fine paid in December, but on Thursday the commission accused the company of not applying some other measures against it. One of these decisions was that Micosoft market a version of its leading software Windows without video software Media Player. Another required the company to divulge information about its product operating system needed by manufacturers of competing products.”

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