Microsoft Sends Antitrust Proposal to EU

By Ian Bell Updated June 1, 2005

Microsoft was fined last year by the European Commission 496 million euros for what the EU considers as anticompetitive practices. The end result was a stripped down version of Windows without the included media player. Since then, Microsoft has paid the fine, and created a stripped down version of Windows per their request. Of the 26 total demands by the EU, only 20 have been agreed upon by Microsoft thus far.

“The Commission rejected Microsoft’s proposed server interoperability license in March of this year.

Microsoft said in April that it had addressed the majority of the Commission’s concerns in this area, but the Commission said a few weeks ago that there were still issues to be resolved regarding both the server interoperability remedy and the version of Windows without Media Player.”

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