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EU fines Microsoft record $1.4bn
The European Commission has fined US computer giant Microsoft for defying sanctions imposed on it for anti-competitive behaviour.
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Microsoft must now pay a record 899m euros ($1.4bn; £680.9m) after it failed to comply with a 2004 ruling that it abused its position.
"Microsoft was the first company in 50 years of EU competition policy that the Commission has had to fine for failure to comply with an antitrust decision," Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes said in a statement.
For years after the decision Microsoft said it was making every effort to comply with the Commission's orders.
"Talk is cheap, flouting the rules is expensive," Kroes said. "We don't want talk and promises. We want compliance."
Microsoft said in a statement the fines concerned "past issues" and it was now looking to the future.
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