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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: KernelPanic on 12 July 2006, 13:03

Title: Further anti-trust fines.
Post by: KernelPanic on 12 July 2006, 13:03

Microsoft has been fined 280.5m euros ($357m;

Title: Re: Further anti-trust fines.
Post by: Orethrius on 12 July 2006, 14:30

I can't wait to hear their lawyers rationalise this black eye.
Will it be:

"You can't expect us to pay this fine and keep competition alive!"

OR

"You'll never take us alive, ya damn commie pinko bastards!"

I'm betting on the former but wouldn't count out the latter.

Title: Re: Further anti-trust fines.
Post by: RaZoR1394 on 12 July 2006, 17:29

Here (http://today.reuters.com/business/newsarticle.aspx?type=ousiv&storyID=2006-07-12T095953Z_01_L11429686_RTRIDST_0_BUSINESSPRO-MICROSOFT-EU-DC.XML) is the Reuters article. What I can remember of Microsoft got fined previously not so long ago but what happened of that?

Title: Re: Further anti-trust fines.
Post by: H_TeXMeX_H on 12 July 2006, 17:57

3m euros a day ... nice. And euros are (currently) worth more than dollars ... die M$ DIE !!!! muhahaah ... dammit I hope the lawers don't save them ... die lawyers die !

Title: Re: Further anti-trust fines.
Post by: piratePenguin on 12 July 2006, 18:38

They can't comply with web-standards or EU rulings, hopefully the EU fucks them up the ass like the US are too much of assholes to do.