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European Union antitrust investigation against Microsoft, the company suffered a 1.68 billion euros (about $ 2.1 billion) fine and up to 10 years in this struggle will enter the final stage when the European Court of Justice decision tomorrow.

Microsoft requires the ordinary courts of the European Union (EU General Court) to revoke the company’s punishable by a fine of 899 million euros. The EU is a fine against Microsoft, because the company failed to fulfill the 2004 antitrust ruling, provides data to assist its compatible with Microsoft’s operating system to competitors. Prior to this, Microsoft has been sentenced to a fine of 497 million euros and 280.5 million euros.

In 2004, when European Union regulators on Microsoft’s punishable by a fine of $ 497 million, the company’s Windows operating system account for 95% of share in the global PC market. Today, faced with the challenges of the Apple iPad, global PC sales have begun to decline.

In the EU’s competition policy was promulgated 50 years ago, Microsoft is the only one not to comply with the ruling of the enterprise. The company agreed to a settlement in 2009, would like to take to repair relations with the European Commission. Microsoft even change from passive to active, Google complained to the EU.

Historically, only the amount of fines over the case of Microsoft, Intel, the company has been sentenced to heavy fines of 1.06 billion euros by the European Union.