Will Microsoft have to pay the 899 million Euro fine towards the EU-commission to its full height?

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Initial likelihoods: Yes, there's no way around it: 34%, No, the ruling is going to be overturned: 33%, only a part of it: they are going to negociate a deal: 33%

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Created Wed 27th Feb 8:28am PST by exilpat

Settlement requested Tue 18th Mar 8:36am PDT by newswrangler:
I think enough information is in to try to settle this:

See: <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/28/technology/28soft.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin>

The "closest option seems to be" "only a part of it: they are going to negociate a deal" ... except it's not clear that Microsoft "negotiated" a deal, rather this is what the EU Commission came up with.

"Ms. Kroes said the fine was calculated based on the fact that Microsoft was in breach of the commission’s order for 488 days. It represented 60 percent of the maximum $2.25 billion that the commission could have imposed, she said. (The dollar amount of the fines, which were levied in euros, have been converted using the exchange rates that then prevailed.) The commission had already fined Microsoft more than $600 million at the time of the 2004 ruling, and more than $350 million in July 2006 for failing to comply with a requirement that it license network communications technology."

There are other open questions on Microsoft and the EU -- and I think this news applies to THIS question ... but it ought be double-checked ;-)

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