{"id":876,"date":"2006-07-12T12:22:13","date_gmt":"2006-07-12T16:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pcin.net\/update\/index.php\/2006\/07\/12\/eu-knocks-microsoft-with-357-million-fine\/"},"modified":"2015-09-14T08:07:49","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T12:07:49","slug":"eu-knocks-microsoft-with-357-million-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2006\/07\/12\/eu-knocks-microsoft-with-357-million-fine\/","title":{"rendered":"EU knocks Microsoft with $357 million fine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcin.net\/c\/?673\">CNet News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>European regulators hit Microsoft with a $357.3 million fine Wednesday, citing the software giant&#8217;s continued noncompliance with its landmark 2004 antitrust ruling.<\/p>\n<p>The European Commission issued the 280.5 million euro fine for the period between Dec. 16 and June 20. That figure amounts to a daily fine of 1.5 million euros, which the Commission is prepared to increase to up to 3 million euros per day if the software giant does not come into full compliance beginning July 31.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t buy Microsoft&#8217;s line that they didn&#8217;t know what was being asked of them because the March 2004 order is absolutely crystal clear,&#8221; Neelie Kroes, who heads the Commission&#8217;s antitrust bureau as its competition commissioner, said Wednesday at a press conference in Brussels. &#8220;And in order to increase the incentive for Microsoft to comply, the Commission has decided the ceiling for potential fines will be raised.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From CNet News: European regulators hit Microsoft with a $357.3 million fine Wednesday, citing the software giant&#8217;s continued noncompliance with its landmark 2004 antitrust ruling. The European Commission issued the 280.5 million euro fine for the period between Dec. 16 and June 20. That figure amounts to a daily fine of 1.5 million euros, which &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-computer-news","7":"anons"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}