{"id":550910,"date":"2006-11-24T06:25:31","date_gmt":"2006-11-24T06:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/550910-microsoft-meets-antitrust-deadline.html"},"modified":"2006-11-24T06:25:31","modified_gmt":"2006-11-24T06:25:31","slug":"microsoft-meets-antitrust-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/550910-microsoft-meets-antitrust-deadline.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft meets antitrust deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Last week the EU&#8217;s executive arm gave Microsoft until November 23 ? Thanksgiving in the United States ? to reveal the secret software protocol for its Windows operating system so that competitors can make rival products. If it missed the deadline, Microsoft faced the threat of daily fines of up to three million euros, which could have amounted to as much as 350 million euros and bring its total penalty to over one billion euros. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;The European Commission can confirm that Microsoft has submitted a revised version of the technical documentation with a view to meeting the requirements of the Commission&#8217;s March 2004 decision,&quot; it said in a statement. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The US company has long clashed with the commission over the crushing market power of its existing Windows operating system and was fined a record 497 million euros in a landmark March 2004 antitrust ruling. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">In addition to fining Microsoft, the EU ordered the company to sell a version of its Windows operating system without Media Player software and to divulge the software protocols underpinning Windows for makers of rival products. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Microsoft challenged the 2004 ruling in the EU?s second-highest court in April, but the judges are not expected to hand down a decision before the end of the year at the earliest. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Frustrated with Microsoft&#8217;s defiance of some of its demands, the Commission in July slapped daily fines adding up to 280.5 million euros over the six-month period of the penalty for failing to fully respect the 2004 antitrust ruling. Microsoft is appealing against the charges. <\/font><\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission (EU) said that Microsoft has met a key deadline in its antitrust standoff with the US software giant, staving off the threat of further fines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}