News reports are saying that EU antitrust authorities plan to recommend that Microsoft pay as much as $2.5 million (USD) in penalties for every day it finds the company failed to disclose information on Windows to competitors. The penalty would be backdated to Dec. 15. That’s a huge amount of money and is total overkill given that Microsoft is working to comply and the issue is still being decided by an appeals court. I’d hate to do business in the EU if this is one of the risks.
European Competition Commission out of Control