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Posts published in September 2007

Court of First Instance issues a judgement in Microsoft case

On the 17th September 2007, the CFI issued a judgement in which it partly confirmed and partly annulled Commission’s decision of 2004 in Microsoft case. The case involved accusations of the abuse of dominant position by Microsoft in the PC operating system market by refusing to disclose interoperability information that would enable its competitors to fully interoperate with Windows PCs and servers and by tying Windows Media Player with its dominant Windows PC operating system. The history of the case and Commission’s materials on it are found at http://ec.europa.eu/comm/competition/antitrust/cases/microsoft/ The fine imposed by the Commission – 497 million Euro –…