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As the European Commission gave Microsoft an extension Monday to respond to charges that it hasn't complied with a 2004 antitrust ruling, the U.S. Department of Justice took the Redmond, Wash.-based company to task for falling behind in providing documentation required under a 2002 antitrust settlement.
According to the Reuters news agency, Microsoft said the Commission had given it until Feb. 15 to rebut a December decision to fine the firm 2 million euros ($2.45 million) a day. In late December, the Commission said that Microsoft had not provided adequate documentation on the inner workings of Windows, a necessary move to give competitors a level playing field in building Windows applications.
At the time, Microsoft said it would fight the fines, and countered that the Commission was making its demands a moving target. Wednesday was to be the deadline for answering the Commission's charge.
Meanwhile, in Washington D.C., the Justice Department said Microsoft is responding too slowly to requests for technical information made by a court-appointed committee established to oversee the antitrust settlement brokered in 2002. Under that settlement, Microsoft is required to license some Windows protocols to outside firms.
"Since approximately mid-November, Microsoft has fallen significantly behind in responding to technical documentation issues submitted by the Technical Committee," the Justice Department said in a filing to federal court on Monday.
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