Microsoft Slammed With $731M Fine

BUSTED

For violating agreement with the EU.

Published Mar. 6 2013 8:13AM EST

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Microsoft did not hold up its end of a 2009 bargain with European Union regulators to give its users the option to use Web browsers other than Internet Explorer, and now it must pay.

Microsoft Slammed With $731M Fine

For violating agreement with the EU.

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