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Microsoft to appeal against EC fine

Microsoft said it would appeal against the record-breaking $1.4bn fine imposed by Brussels two months ago

Brussels to probe votes on Microsoft standard

European Commission to investigate voting process behind clearing the way for a key document format to be adopted as industry standard

EU fines Microsoft record $1.4bn

European regulators fined Microsoft a record $1.4bn for failure to comply with demands to end allegedly anti-competition business practices

Brussels wary of fresh Microsoft overhaul

Microsoft made a sweeping attempt to put its long-running regulatory problems behind it as it unveiled what it claimed was a broad new level of transparency and openness for its Windows operating system and other big-selling software

Is this a new era of openness for Microsoft?

Can Microsoft, the fiercest predator in the software jungle, really change its spots? That was the question left open after the company laid out what it claimed was a significant adjustment to its technology strategy

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Comment and Analysis

Software wars

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Microsoft has again shown it is ready to play rough to get its way – so much so that European Union antitrust regulators have started an investigation

Opening the windows on Microsoft

John Gapper

Taking on three decades of a huge corporation’s working methods is difficult. Bill Gates, the company’s guiding force, may be leaving but persuading his spirit to go is something else, says John Gapper

Microsoft’s leap

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Microsoft has taken a step it would not too long ago have described as a threat to its business model. As such, its offer deserves to be taken seriously

Clash of the titans

EU vs Microsoft

Microsoft and the European regulator became embroiled in an agonising clash of cultures. Tobias Buck tells the inside story of the EU’s pursuit of US software giant

Transatlantic divide

EU’s line highlights Atlantic rift

The pursuit by European officials of some of the biggest US technology groups shows that important differences remain between the US and European approach

    Europe regulators outpunch US

    The Commission's willingness and ability to take on the likes of Microsoft and Intel in landmark investigations has irked national regulators, politicians and executives in the US

      Microsoft’s Appeal

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      Microsoft EU

      The European Commission should try to avoid another protracted legal fight. Its inquiry should be forward-looking and not just rake over the past

      Microsoft concedes defeat in EU battle

      Microsoft finally admitted defeat in its three-year battle with the European Commission, agreeing to allow competitors access to technology that Brussels said would create more innovation in the software market

      Microsoft case reveals a regulatory gulf

      The European Commission’s antitrust battle against the software company has highlighted the differences between US and European attitudes towards dominance abuses

      Microsoft bows to the EU system

      The European Court of First Instance dismissed the software group’s attacks on the March 2004 European Commission ruling, flicking aside its arguments as “scarcely credible,” “purely semantic” or “wholly unsubstantiated”

      Kroes rebuffs US on Microsoft ruling

      Neelie Kroes, the European Union competition commissioner, firmly rebuffed US criticism of the court judgment backing the landmark Brussels antitrust ruling against Microsoft

      Microsoft ruling

      Microsoft’s bruising nine-year battle with the European Commission has ended in stinging defeat, and the ruling appears to cement Brussels’ position as regulator-in-chief of the global technology industry

      EU blow to Microsoft on Windows

      Microsoft will be forced to hand over to rivals what the group claims is sensitive and valuable technical information about its Windows operating system for next to no compensation, according to a confidential document seen by the FT.

      Microsoft format fight with rivals to intensify

      A format war between Microsoft and a coalition of companies led by IBM and Sun will be fought in the normally staid meeting rooms of national standard-setting bodies over the next two days