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EU Fines Microsoft $358 Million

The European Commission fined Microsoft Corp. 280.5 million euros ($357 million) Wednesday for not complying with a 2004 antitrust ruling.

Microsoft, which was ordered in March 2004 to provide technical documentation on communication protocols so that competitors could create software that would work with Windows servers and PCs, had been threatened with fines since December of last year.

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