Microsoft Loses Appeal of EU Antitrust Judgment From Another Era

Right on schedule, the European Union General Court rejected Microsoft’s appeal to dismiss $1.12 billion in fines for allegedly not complying with a 2004 antitrust order. The judgment, which leaves most of the fine print in place, is in some ways a relic of another time – one when Microsoft didn’t constantly see the market changing around it and was still the unquestioned dominant force in computing.

The verdict from the court