CASE COMMENT : PERIODIC PENALTY - MICROSOFT - NON-COMPLIANCE WITH THE OBLIGATIONS

Periodic penalty : The Commission imposes a periodic penalty of 280 millions euros on a software company for non-compliance with certain obligations of disclosure which have been made its responsability by the decision of March 2004 and threatens to increase the penalties if the company fails to comply with its obligations by July 31, 2006 (Microsoft)

373. Periodic penalty : The Commission imposes a periodic penalty of 280 millions euros to a software company for non-compliance with certain obligations of disclosure which have been made its responsability by the decision of March 2004 and threatens to increase the penalties if the company fails to comply with its obligations by July 31, 2006 (Microsoft)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. Microsoft had been warned that if, as of 15 December 2005, it did not provide a complete and adequate documentation of the interfaces of its products software, in order to allow workgroup servers developed by Microsoft's competitors to fully interoperate with the environment. Windows, in accordance with the requirements of the Commission's decision to March 2004, on reasonable and non-discriminatory terms, it

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Alain Ronzano, Periodic penalty : The Commission imposes a periodic penalty of 280 millions euros on a software company for non-compliance with certain obligations of disclosure which have been made its responsability by the decision of March 2004 and threatens to increase the penalties if the company fails to comply with its obligations by July 31, 2006 (Microsoft) , 12 July 2006, Concurrences N° 4-2006, Art. N° 55862, www.concurrences.com

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