Microsoft had until the 15th December to meet EU demands to provide information on its Windows Operating System that would allow its competitor's group servers to better interoperate with it. However, Microsoft hasn't met these demands, so the EU is threatening to fine the software giant €2mil a day. Microsoft claims that the EU keeps moving the goal posts when it comes to their demands, and they cannot keep up.
If on the 25th January Microsoft still hasn't met the demands of the EU, then they will start imposing the fines as threatened, daily, backdated to the 15th December. Harsh as the EU is being, MS is being just as agressive. Microsoft's General Counsel Brad Smith said in a statement following the EU Commissions latest demands that they have "responded to more than 100 requests from the Commission," and that they "continue working quickly to meet the Commission's new and changing demands. Yet every time we make a change, we find that the Commission moves the goal post and demands another change."
So, once again Microsoft and the EU are locking horns, one accusing the other of dilly-dallying, the other claiming that the goal posts won't stop moving. MS will try to stop the fines by any means possible, including, according to Retuers, an oral hearing, which could take months to arrange. However, the EU Comission has said that regardless of what legal action MS takes, the fines will start as of January 25th.
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