Microsoft appeals $1.4 billion EU fine

Microsoft Corp. , the world's largest softwaremaker, asked a court to overturn or reduce a record $1.4 billion European Union fine for failing to comply with an antitrust ruling.

[Traveller]

I'm against monopolies, but come on, 1.4 Billion? Isn't that a bit ridiculous? If I was Microsoft, I would pull all my products from the EU, and ban the sale of them in those countries. See how they like living their life with out Microsoft products. There has to be a give and take, our systems need each other.

[american 01]

the fine is a percentage or two what microsoft has gained in market share and expansion, sales and delays, stalling and stealing ideas and squashing invention.

microsoft dosent provide the information to innovators, only to be fined later, an amount far, far less than the what the innovators would have gained market share, product identity, and reshuffling the marketplace with competition.

microsoft needs to be fined 100x's more to get them to shape up.