The European Commission confirmed on Friday it would debate antitrust sanctions against U.S. software giant Microsoft at a regular meeting on Wednesday.
“The Commission on Wednesday should be discussing the Microsoft issue and if we have to apply sanctions for (Microsoft) not having respected decisions from March 2004,” the EU executive’s spokesman, Jonathan Todd, said at a news briefing on Friday.
On Thursday, Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes was asked if Microsoft would be fined at the meeting and replied: “I couldn’t imagine another way.”
The Commission found in 2004 that Microsoft had used a quasi-monopoly in its Windows operating system for PCs to compete unfairly against other firms, including makers of so-called work group servers.
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