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05:00 MSFT In Europe, Microsoft faces a new antitrust complaint - NY Times (26.72 )

The New York Times reports Microsoft's (MSFT) antitrust battle in Europe intensified Wednesday when some of its biggest rivals filed a new complaint against it, accusing the co of a wide range of antitrust abuses. IBM (IBM), Oracle (ORCL), Sun Microsystems (SUNW) and six other companies submitted a formal complaint to the European Commission on Wednesday, claiming that Microsoft continues to abuse its dominant position in the software market in spite of a 2004 European antitrust ruling against it. The complaint opened a new chapter in Microsoft's long-running battle with competition regulators. The European Commission says Microsoft has not complied with its antitrust ruling, and is threatening to fine the company as much as 2 mln euros ($2.4 mln) a day. The commission's apparent inability to get Microsoft to comply with the ruling had frustrated many of Microsoft's rivals, but the threat of daily fines has restored the commission's credibility, and spurred the competitors
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