The General Court essentially upholds the Commission’s decision imposing a periodic penalty payment on Microsoft for failing to allow its competitors access to interoperability information on reasonable terms
However, the Court has reduced the amount of the periodic penalty payment from €899 million to €860 million to take account of the fact that the Commission had permitted Microsoft to apply, until 17 September 2007, restrictions concerning the distribution of ‘open source’ products. Here to read more.
