Microsoft is to appeal against the European Commission's
€899m
fine for failing to honour a four year-old antitrust agreement.
The move seems to bring to an end the
more
conciliatory approach Microsoft has recently adopted in its turbulent
dealings with the Commission.
This mood has been matched in the EU, with an MP calling for a
halt
on Microsoft purchases until the company pays up.
The €899m fine relates to the Commission's insistence in 2004 that Microsoft
license Windows code to open source developers at a reasonable price.
After a long legal tussle in the European courts, Microsoft said in October
2007 that it would comply.
The company has since demonstrated its plans for releasing Windows code to
third parties, but the Commission decided that Microsoft has not done enough to
comply with the ruling.
A new fine was imposed on 27 February 2008. Microsoft's appeal to the Court
of First Instance in Luxembourg is to overturn the fine.
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